How It All Goes Down
- It's been two months since Guert died, and Pella is enrolling in classes at Westish.
- Dean Melkin wonders aloud if her dad's death could have been "intentional" (78.24)—very tactful.
- She has no idea why her dad would want to kill himself.
- Then she wonders if they found out about Owen.
- So she says, "All this has been exceptionally hard on Owen" (78.30) and when the Dean doesn't ask why or "who's Owen?" she knows that they knew.
- And then she wonders if her dad really did kill himself, but she decides he didn't.
- Angry, Pella wants to stick it to Westish, so she decides to take classes there anyway, and remind them whenever she can about her dad.
- She goes to his grave, and doesn't think he should be buried there: "He belonged out there, in the water, which he loved" (78.47). (Remember all those times he talked about the water? No? We don't either.)
- She decides that her dad should be buried at sea.