After the 9/11 attacks occur Erica became highly “introspective” and she states that she hasn’t been like this “since the first time, since Chris died”, her nostalgic thoughts becoming evident and with worrying consequences, Changez becomes desperate to “extricate her from the maze of her psychosis” to which she was slowly becoming more lost in as her thoughts turned to Chris. “When Chris died, Erica felt she had lost herself”, and the attacks on the World Trade Centre had plunged Erica back in to that state of introspection where “she did not know if she could be found”. Erica was slowly being overrun by “a powerful nostalgia” highlighting the dangers of becoming too nostalgic, with the danger of leaving a person “Emaciated, detached, and so lacking in life”.
After the 9/11 attacks occur Erica became highly “introspective” and she states that she hasn’t been like this “since the first time, since Chris died”, her nostalgic thoughts becoming evident and with worrying consequences, Changez becomes desperate to “extricate her from the maze of her psychosis” to which she was slowly becoming more lost in as her thoughts turned to Chris. “When Chris died, Erica felt she had lost herself”, and the attacks on the World Trade Centre had plunged Erica back in to that state of introspection where “she did not know if she could be found”. Erica was slowly being overrun by “a powerful nostalgia” highlighting the dangers of becoming too nostalgic, with the danger of leaving a person “Emaciated, detached, and so lacking in life”.