
The demise is described to be John troubling legacy to Michael. It is on this particular adventure that the past unfolds whereby their father, John killed himself a decade ago (Haslett, Imagine Me Gone). With his hope to escape the dependence he has over prescription of drugs, he accepted the offer to be taken to an Island off the coast of Marine by his brother Alec. The novel uses descriptive language in explaining the life of a suicidal young man named Michael. Smith identifies that language illuminates a way so intense that can make a man who is about to kill himself rejoice in the precariousness of his existence.

All this can also have the power to instill unhappiness whereby it reaches the note that the heart pines for and also the language. The ordeal of daily life becomes aligned with the magnificent beauty of nature, love, and art which is music (Haslett, Imagine Me Gone). They acknowledge that pain is a grief of loss. Most of them cannot fathom the reason why life can be so beautiful and at the same time so painful.

Most of the cases, in Imagine Me Gone novel, brings out troubled character who are so much weighed with the changes in life.
