Learning from personal experience is often the best way to grow up. No one is perfect but understanding one’s short comings is the first step to success. Once a person understands their faults, they can make moves to bettering themselves or their situations. As a young man, Jay’s character was not exemplary of what society deems as a good citizen. He took part in activities that would lead to a dangerous path. However, in Grade 10 at St. Ignatius of Loyola, the lessons learned from the sins of Macbeth really took to him. The scene where Lady Macbeth cannot “wash the blood off of her hands” (Macbeth) stood out to him in that he realized that some of the decisions he was making may one day be something he wouldn’t be able to absolve or wash away.