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Quote #10
Lloyd had frequently taken her to visit David's grave. Unless he took her there, he once told me, "she couldn't carry on, she couldn't pick up the day, she couldn't live." For three years his wife had cried, and he said the house was like a tomb and he found himself working long hours out of the house "to keep my sanity." (11.145)
The death of David LeBlanc imprisons his parents, Eula and Lloyd. Murder obviously ends a life, but it also restricts the lives of everyone it touches, from the victim's families to the murderer himself. So, basically, don't kill anybody, Shmoopers. That's the moral here.