By losing her sister, Lindsay is in danger of being robbed of herself. As the story unfolds, it is clear that Lindsay carries the hardest burden, because no one will ever be able to look at her and not think about Susie. Susie watches Lindsay sitting alone in her bedroom trying to harden herself. After hearing her father describe Susies features, she asks her father not to lie to her, so he doesnt but even answering her question, he cant face the truth of his words.
Lindsay is only one year younger but still is not told directly about whats happened to Susie instead she hears telephone snippets and bits of conversations between her parents and the police. Susie worries most about her gifted and petulant sister Lindsay. It is evident that something has changed in the Salmon household. Her father walks past his wife sitting on the living room carpet unable to comfort her and heads for the study to cry in the “deep ruff of the fur surrounding the dogs neck.” When the neighbor tries to bring four-year-old Buckley home, nobody answers the doorbell. And in that moment Susie sees each of her family members retreat separately into him or her self as each tries to come to understand the devastating news. But there is no speculation on our part, Susie tells us right off the details of what happened to her.Īs the days go by and the evidence mounts, her parents still refuse to believe that is, until the day Detective Fenerman tells them that all evidence points to their daughters death and that the police will handle this as a murder investigation. At first they try to reassure themselves that “nothing is ever certain ” that Susie is just lost out in the rain somewhere, and alive. Unlike later when “kids of all races and genders started appearing on milk cartons or in the daily mail.” She watches as her parents begin to grasp the un-retractable horror that has entered their lives. Her murder occurred on Decemback at a time when people still didnt believe things like that could happen. As Susie gets used to living in heaven, she watches her family and friends on Earth as they come to the realization that she is gone forever. Franny, their intake counselor, helps them adjust. Susie meets another girl, Holly, on her third day in heaven and they end up sharing their ideal home - a duplex. That all the buildings were like suburban northeast high schools built in the 1960s.” Later she learns that heaven is whatever you truly want it to be and, sometimes, other peoples version of heaven intercepts with your own. That in everyones heaven there were soccer goalposts in the distance and lumbering women throwing shot put and javelin. “When I first entered heaven I thought everyone saw what I saw. Murdered by a neighbor when she was only fourteen years old, Susie tells us what it is like to be in her new place.
Our narrator Susie Salmon is already in heaven.
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