<span>Belshazzar ruled Babylon, an intense country with a long history and a long queue of capable lords. One of those lords was Nebuchadnezzar, who had vanquished Judah, conveying the sanctuary fortunes to Babylon alongside Daniel and numerous different hostages. Belshazzar was Nebuchadnezzar's grandson through his little girl Nitocris. Belshazzar calls Nebuchadnezzar his "dad", however, this is a non-exclusive utilization of the word father, signifying "precursor."</span>
Visiting an American poet in Normandy, Smith finds herself in the beach where the landing took place. "She showed me Juno Beach, the cliffs in which the snipers crouched, the maze-like hedgerows that proved so lethal, and finally the American cemetery." This event makes her want to investigate her father's experience in World War II.
<span>And in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. But strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood.</span>
As with any author's decision to use 1st person, her intention most likely -- in this story -- was to get her readers to go along for the ride into madness and cultivate a certain amount of sympathy for the narrator and her plight. The constant use of "I" puts readers in the narrator’s head and allows them to empathize with her.
