She has been threatening to kill herself for about ten years now , and has attempted it a few times , but only when someone was due home so she could be found . We all wrote this off as attention seeking behaviour . And of course it was .

A: Why did she try to seek attention ?

Being from a rural area snakes are a danger , I do n't have a true fear of them so to say . But yeah they 're here and I watch out for them . The first dream they were just there . The second one however involved me getting bite ( and a very vivid remember it being a rattler ) .

A: Why is the narrator not freaking out about snakes ?

Howard reached tentatively behind him , all the while wondering what he got up to last night , his mind whirling with potential possibilities . The smell of alcohol and perfume brought him back to his senses : of course , it was Vince . Who else would it be ?

A: Why does Howard not mind the smell of alcohol ?

I could have found you a room in one of the apartment in my buildings , " but I told him I wanted desperately to move back to the neighborhood in December , and he said that I should call him every couple of weeks and ask him about any apartments opening up . I said I was scared of the management co , and he said I had no reason to be as long as I did n't do what chad did and never pay rent and then be belligerent about it . So that is what I ' m angling for .

A:
What does the narrator want to be ?