Difficulty of Unresolved Issues

Should you always dwell on the past? Is there an answer for everything? “A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience,” wrote Doug Larson. “Death By Landscape” describes the dangers of overcoming problems that are left unresolved and without answers. The author Margaret Atwood examines the difficulty of living with things that are not settled.
In “Death By Landscape,” the author shows Lois’s difficulty of overcoming the disappearance of her best friends, Lucy. The single event of Lucy’s disappearance has a great impact on Lois’s life because whenever she looks at the landscapes, they provoke feelings of loss and abandonment. In the first part of the story, Lois’s memory is suppressed because “she could pretend she didn’t hear it, this empty space in sound.” (p. 17) However, Lois is constantly aware of the void Lucy’s disappearance left inside her in the end of the story because “now there is nothing much left to distract her.” (p....