“’Wailing wall,’ she said again. ‘Like they have in Jerusalem. The Jewish people go there to mourn. It’s away for them to deal with their suffering. See, they write their prayers on scraps of paper and tuck them in the wall.’” May’s character is very complex. We don’t find out till alter on in the story that she was an identical twin who shared a very intimate core with her sister. When the other twin April died May never quite recovered. I felt that her character was very spiritual. There was this intensity to the way that she related with people. She took on their emotions and went through the pain that they went through. She did this even with people that she had never met… someone in the newspaper… someone on the television. I related her in a literary way to Jesus on the cross. He took on all of the sins of the world and in that moment was forsaken from the Father. He felt the grief, the pain, the guilt, the deceit, the pride, the selfishness… He took it all. May is a lesser example of this, but she also takes on and wears the pain of the people around her and in doing so alienates herself from her family.
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