When the narrator meets with the family from Marshalltown, he seems unstable because he was standing in the rain with his sleeping bag and high on drugs. The antidotes made him think that he could see future events because the narrator states that “I’d known all along exactly what was going to happen. But the man and his wife woke me up later, denying it viciously.” (6) The narrator claims to have known in advance that they were going to be in a car wreck soon or later. After the accident, the narrator had a chance to save both victims from the car wreck, but he decides to save only the baby not the man because he could not fully understand the difference between appearance and reality, so he left the man dying on the scene, with blood escaping his mouth with each breath. When the narrator was looking at the man, he said that “He wouldn’t be taking many more [breaths], and, therefore, I looked down with great pity of a person’s life on earth. I don’t mean that we end up dead, that’s not the pity. I mean he couldn’t tell me whether he was dreaming, and I couldn’t tell him what was real.” (10) At this point the narrator faces the