In today's society, there are many people who have someone who they can lean on for support or someone that they can look up to. There are also many people who are quick to assume things about other people when they have no idea about what might be going on in their life. In the novel “In the Lake of the Woods” John Wade suffers from the loss of his wife and is quickly convicted of her murder or disappearance without anybody being concerned about asking John what might have happened or asking about how he feels about the situation.
The narrator's efforts to solve the disappearance of Kathy Wade are slowly revealed throughout the story but the evidence passages throughout the novel are what concern the reader about