Keywords:
Extraordinary:
Gerard wonders if his life is different from anyone else? How his footprints are just a pair among all the others, or if they’re different from all the other people. Will his footsteps just disappear like the Indians, and will he just be one more man among 5 billion people? “Gerard thinks of his own footprints and how soon they will disappear. He exhales into the world and his breath disappears.”
Distance:
Gerard keeps himself from a distance to everyone else; he tells himself, that the women keep a distance because they know he will never love them, but maybe it is himself who won’t allow himself loving others, because his heart belongs to another woman. “Gerard is handsome. He has slept with many women. (…) Gerard loved one woman once, but not Lucy’s mother.”
Mood:
Crazy:
Laurel is shocked over Gerard’s life, and how it has turned drastically as a single father as Issy had left Gerard alone with Lucy. Crazy how Gerard handles the whole thing very brave, takes care of his daughter with well, but still impressed over that he handled everything alone. “You’re still kind”
Contrast:
Love:
Gerard and Laurel made love, while Gerard and Issy just were having sex. It is describe that Gerard loved one woman once, and obviously that woman was Laurel, he moved in with Issy, and as Laurel broke up with him, he felt the feeling of losing the love of his life. Issy was just a lover whom got pregnant, and he cared about her a lot and stayed with her and took care of her and the baby. “Then he and Laurel make love first in the kitchen and then in her