This is especially evident when he looks for a tree by the river that has a special meaning to him.
Gene often shows how memory can be tinged by feelings that change how reality is perceived and recalled. The presence of memory, and its role over time, is a major theme of this book when Gene reiterates his thoughts on the past and on the lasting impact of the events he is describing, he only increases the importance of this theme within the novel. Gene confesses that he is still stuck in the time of World War II his memory still has a tremendous hold on him, as evidenced by his ability to recall the goings on of fifteen years' past with such detail. Is central to the novel the novel is spawned by a visit back to Gene's old school, and the work hinges upon a dialogue between the past and the present, and the relation of a man to his much younger self.
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