In the beginning of the story it is shown that Tayo is a person who is mentally troubled. This is shown by describing his inability to get any sleep because of his memories from serving in the military. In the story, it states that Tayo “Could get no rest as long as the memories were tangled with the present” which shows that Tayo has a problem from differentiating what’s going on in the present and what are past events. An example of this happens when Tayo was ordered to shoot and kill the Japanese soldiers that were lined up he didn’t see enemy soldiers he saw his uncle standing there. When in reality that was not his uncle because his uncle was thousands of miles away from where all the conflict was going on. Tayo acknowledges that he has
