This snippet from the backstory came from something my father did and still does. I built in the morning ritual of Jack eating one banana and a small box of raisins every day. The accumulated boxes and the absence of figures in this scene are meant to symbolize the passing of time and all of the raisins that Jack would have consumed in the years after his death.
A coincidental occurrence was that the newspaper that I chose to place on the couch just happened to be July 30, 2007--both the date that this fictional story is set and the day that Ingmar Bergman died. Bergman's 'Wild Strawberries' was one of my biggest influences narratively--an older person revisiting and re-entering their past in a surrealist manner.
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