When does make believe begin to cloud reality. I’m reading The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and I am currently on page 111. When Rachael finds out her husband is having an affair she turns to alcohol and tends to have holes in her memory. Typically she does not worry too much about these holes that is until Megan Hipwell goes missing, and Rachael may be responsible. In Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train, I have been connecting, predicting, and questioning.
When Rachael was married to Tom they were attempting to conceive a baby, however they went through some difficulties in the process and were unable to conceive. This led Rachael to take up a drinking habit. This drinking habit is what caused Tom to divorce Rachael, and then the divorce led Rachael to drink heavier. Rachael’s strong addiction to alcohol …show more content…
As the days went on after her drunken night she remember tripping on the train platform and a red-haired man catching her. Racheal then shes him again staring at her. “I look up and find myself looking right into the eyes of the man from Saturday night – the ginger one, the one who helped me up. He’s staring right at me” (Hawkins 91). So potentially the red-haired man talked to Rachael, brought her back to her apartment and then had the landlord open the door for them or potentially she had her key on her and he helped her get settled. The same night she was intoxicated she woke up to find herself covered in blood, why was Rachael covered in blood? Well considering how drunk she was she could have potentially hurt herself, tripping, running into objects, among other scenarios. My more prevalent thought was Anna became enraged at Rachael because Rachael kept harassing her family and Anna snapped. Anna started a scuffle between the two and the blood on Rachael’s was either her own blood or Anna’s blood from the