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Madness and Grief
How Lost Face develops Madness and Grief.
Psychological breakdown from loss and isolation is a recurring motif, most poignantly in 'Flush of Gold,' where the woman's waiting for a dead man blurs into lunacy, and in the narrator's near-hysterical reactions to the dog Spot.
Where it surfaces
- Flush of Gold
Marie Chauvet's descent into madness, living in isolation and haunted by the memory of a dead lover, illustrates the theme of grief overwhelming reason.