Throughout the reading of this book my thought process was very scattered much like the Casares' writing.
My first thought when wondering what was happening to Casares was that he was delusional from the heat and lack of food, but as the story continues you begin to wonder if he is seeing ghosts or if he himself is in fact the one who is dead. As I continued to read I began to believe more and more that they were neither. One of my first hints was Morel talking about the short time that they have left.
“What a pity that we cannot come to an understanding! We have only a short time left-three days, and then it will all be over.”
At the time this does not seem a very substantial piece of information to the story but as the book goes on and weeks pass you see that the people are all still there and things are only becoming more clear. It is not until Casares notices that Morel and Faustine are having a very similar conversation to one that they previously have had that you know that they are something more than ghosts.
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