Rose Mellie Rose 2

"I spend my Sundays in the Buick. I go to Seagull Beach more for the Buick than for Cob, who acts as if I did not exist. He didn't care about the Buick now. He is letting it rust and get filled in with sand everywhere."

Mellie seems lost at this point in the book. I think she re-visits the Buick so she has some sense of connection to her past. It reminds her of a time when she was surrounded by people she loved. It makes her feel closer to Yem while he is gone. Her life seems to go in chapters that do not over lap. When people leave her life- they don't come back. Cob was in the last chapter of her life and now she doesn't really talk to him. She seems alone.

Also, I find it interesting that all of the characters have short, simple names: Cob, Yem, Nem, Pim- All very simplistic and similar. In a way, it makes all of the characters seem the same and not unique in any way.