Not only was Noah struggling with the acceptance of his sexuality, he was also struggling with the acceptance of his mother having an affair with Guillermo Garcia. Right before his mother crashed, Noah followed his mother and caught her with the sculptor Guillermo Garcia. Before Noah could talk to anyone about this unfortunate event, his mother was killed in a car accident. Instead of telling the truth about how his mother was going to ask their dad for a divorce and how she was cheating, he lied. “The panic’s coursing out of him and into me, out of me and into him, and the words just come flying out.” She was going to ask you to come home so we could all be a family again. She was on her way to tell you that” (Nelson 340). Noah told everyone
