In the novel The Year of Magical Thinking written by Joan Didion, Joan discusses her grief due to the loss of her husband and we see a specific style where the narrator is the writer, therefore we get to read about the thoughts about the one mourning. Joan’s spoke about her relationship with her husband before he died with regret, identifying each flaw that they may have had making her, as a narrator, much more credible. She also used facts to help her understand her husband’s heart attack perhaps to help her conceive the fact that her husband really was dead. “Only after I read the autopsy report did I stop trying to reconstruct the collision, the collapse of the dead stop. The collapse had been there all along…” (Didion 2005). In this, we