Closed for Winter BLAIN
Although we as the audience do not actually find out what really happened “that day of the jetty”, the sentence “I remember” appears to reoccur on several occasions at different stages during Georgia Blain’s novel, Closed for Winter, as Elise attempts to back-track the day that her role-model and older sister Frances disappeared unnoticed. ... “While outside this house, the house where I am now, the wind comes up from the gully, shaking the winter-wet branches of the trees, cold and bracing”, carefully expresses feelings of doubt, loss and separation; the weather reflecting her life. ... The photograph is significant to Elise in finding the truth, as she believes that it should show something about Frances’ disappearance that she has missed… and this idea appears frequently during Closed for Winter, as she is so content in tracing the past. ... The last passage is located at the very end of Closed for Winter.