Grief (novel) The stages are denial, anger, depression, and acceptance. The narrator, as well as other characters in the story, slowly passes through these stages in trying to deal with death. During the story, the theme of dealing with grief overcomes the narrator, the landlord and Frank. Premature death grief results from the guilt that they try to deal with because of the AIDS epidemic. Many of their friends, for example one named Nick is overcome by the disease. When told about his HIV, Nick “looked like a deer caught in a car’s headlights for weeks... he even chased the doctor who
Elizabeth Boyle, Countess of Guilford the Irish Confederate Wars. She never remarried. During the following "dark days of the Irish Rebellion," Elizabeth stayed with her father-in-law, Lord Cork, who refers to her often, with special fondness, in his letters. Eventually he sent her away to England, for safety's sake. "God knows," he writes, "with what grief of soul I part with her." Her father fought in the English Civil War, as a Royalist. Lady Kinalmeaky became a Roman Catholic and shared for some years Queen Henrietta Maria's exile in France along with her mother, the Countess of Denbigh, who also attended the Queen. While in