hate, and the need for reparation. Consequently, as Klein argues by reviewing the

developmental process of the human being, the "feelings of guilt and distress become

an inherent part of love."308

 To pursue Klein's line of thought further, it is reasonable to speculate that the death

of the loved one stirs up even more intense feelings of guilt and distress as well as a sense

of abandonment. After Henry's loss of his mother, since the way to express these

troubling emotions is blocked and his love object is dead, he finds an easy way to cope

with his painful loss by projecting all his distressing feelings onto his emotionally

unavailable father. By blaming his father, Henry absolves himself from the

overwhelming guilt triggered by the death of his mother. Consequently, Henry's parents

remain, to use Klein's term, split "part objects" to him, with the lost mother representing

the good and the remaining father the bad. Henry's resentment toward his father builds

up without any release and finally erupts in a sudden emotional outburst one day after his

father loses mobility and speech after a stroke. Henry conducts his "berating" of the bed-

ridden and speechless father right before his imminent death, "half-intending an

emotional torture" (49). The first among the list of the faults Henry hurls at his dying

father is, "how he had conducted himself with my mother" (49). Henry's confrontation,

which is the culmination of his long standing resentment toward his father after his

mother's death, testifies to the continuing power of unacknowledged loss and grief. An

invisible kernel of trauma lives on without letting up its grip on those who endure their

pain silently.

 One of the tragic repercussions of trauma is that it causes a repetitive reliving of the

painful past in the present. It also determines the pattern of behavior by which people