Essay On John Wade In The Lake Of The Woods

In the novel, “In The Lake of the Woods” by Tim O’ Brien, Kathy, disappears mysteriously with little knowledge of where she had gone specifically, or if she was murdered. There are several theories that attempt to explain what happened to her and several of them lead to the conclusion that John had murdered her in a fit of rage in the middle of the night. Wade himself would most likely have blocked the memory of killing his wife out of his mind since he’s has a habit of doing this before. For example Wade was a war veteran who was serving during the My Lai Massacre and he had killed another soldier in the Charlie Company, his troop, but he had altered the memory to make it so he had been startled by Weatherby and he shot him as a reflex. Therefore, …show more content…
I believe that John Wade is not guilty of directly murdering his wife but he however is guilty of driving her to her ultimate death. First, there is no evidence that John hurt her in any way that night. Police forces and even K-9 units tore apart the cabin and found nothing incriminating of John. Also in a hypothesis chapter it said that John could have poured boiling water onto Kath’s face effectively killing, then he proceeded to dump her ,along with the sheets, into the lake but if this were true there would have been singed skin cells around the bed, the mattress would've been noticeably damp to Wade the morning after, and there would have been his fingerprints all of the boat house. Secondly, all the evidence points to Kath taking the boat out and getting lost in the lake. The aforementioned evidence is that the boat and life jackets were missing and Kath was not in bed. To further this theory, there was no sign of struggle since even here slippers, which were bedside, were untouched. Lastly, Kath led an unhealthy lifestyle that she hated because of John but continued also because of