Whether he does or does not the reader will never know. During the 80s if a person were to have AIDS he or she was certainly frowned upon. Therefore with Nathan possibly having this disease it causes him to go into panic mode. He ends up traveling to different places out of the blue and starts using drugs. “This was the secret fact he had to live with everyday of his life, the secret life that had brought him to Xanax and Halcion, Darvon and Valium- all crude efforts to cut the fear firing his blood, exploding like the tiny viral time bombs he believed were lying in wait, expertly planted” (par. 26). Throughout the whole story Nathan tries to find who he is as a person. Which makes him more
Whether he does or does not the reader will never know. During the 80s if a person were to have AIDS he or she was certainly frowned upon. Therefore with Nathan possibly having this disease it causes him to go into panic mode. He ends up traveling to different places out of the blue and starts using drugs. “This was the secret fact he had to live with everyday of his life, the secret life that had brought him to Xanax and Halcion, Darvon and Valium- all crude efforts to cut the fear firing his blood, exploding like the tiny viral time bombs he believed were lying in wait, expertly planted” (par. 26). Throughout the whole story Nathan tries to find who he is as a person. Which makes him more