“And then this one crazy sister ruins it all” (131). The reliance on memory as fact in this book is a theme until the end “I watched her do so in my memory, and I heard Lowell saying again how the world run on fuel of an endless, fathomless animal misery” (250). This is during the scene that Rosemary has repressed with Fern and the gray kitten. Throughout the book Rosemary is blamed for Ferns disappearance but she doesn’t know why. After this memory is relieved we see why Rosemary remains silent about Fern in her life “keeping quiet was beyond my capabilities. It was on the many things Fern could do that I could not” (252). Once Rosemary told her mother everything that had happened Fern was sent away, giving Lowell fuel to blame her for Ferns
