She seems to be trying to send a message to anyone who is dogging her trail. Meanwhile, the reader can't help but worry for Teddy, surrounded by all that water.Īs they gather evidence and decipher clues left behind by Solando, in her cell as well as at various points on the island, Daniels and Aule come to believe that the barefoot murderess hasn't gone far. But these initial observations are temporarily forgotten, as the partners set about trying to locate Solando on what appears to be an inescapable island. He has 'delicate hands that seemed incongruous with the rest of him,' Teddy muses, 'as if he'd borrowed them until his real ones came back from the shop.' Furthermore, Aule's manner seems unlike that of a regular marshal ('Chuck was a little slower with his weapon, fumbling with the holster snap'). Daniels thinks there is something strange about Aule. Accompanying Daniels on this assignment is his new partner, Chuck Aule, a likable guy with an engaging intellect, but also some troubling baggage: he was transferred to Boston from Seattle, because his prejudiced superiors didn't like the fact that Aule's significant other is a Japanese woman. She was an inmate and patient at Ashecliffe Hospital, a federal penal institution for the criminally insane, housed in a Civil War-era former barracks on the island. Now, in 1954, he's sent back out to Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of murderess Rachel Solando. Teddy Daniels grew up a boat ride's distance away, then went on to fight honorably in World War II before becoming a marshal and being stationed in his hometown. The rocky isle from which Lehane takes his title is supposedly one of four located immediately outside the busy harbor of Boston, Massachusetts. In Shutter Island, what should be nourishing is not-and what appears to be reality is not, either. Water, in Teddy's migraine-induced dreams, is a cruel instrument of death, and the heavy rains at the midpoint of Lehane's novel cause considerable physical and psychic damage. Early on in this story we're told that when Teddy's fisherman father took him out on his boat for the first time, the still patches of water caused the boy to throw up 'violently, pitching black ropes of it' into the sea. marshal at the center of Dennis Lehane 's second standalone novel, Shutter Island, water is as dangerous as acid.

But to Edward 'Teddy' Daniels, the troubled U.S. Water has long been represented in literature as a positive force of nature, a source of rebirth and change.

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