"You'll Apologize If You Have To" Scene Response

The scene where Wallace arrives at Kim's house to see his daughter Molly shows a broken down man, unhappy with himself and the way his life is going. The fact that Kim is now married to a wealthy lawyer seems to be salt in the wound for Wallace. He is somewhat troubled by the fact that Molly doesn't even really want to look at him. I get a sense that he feels estranged to a certain degree. Kim already seems to have her mind set that nothing Wallace says will matter and so he feels defeated before even putting up a fight. There is this feeling that these visits are starting to become forced and so Wallace thinks, "what's the point?". It's a sad realization that makes me think this just another twist in the downward spiral that Wallace's life has become. 

In the scene where Wallace goes up to the neighbor's house, he meets the man's wife and is invited in. The fact that he had to explain why he was there and not because the other man had done something wrong was interesting. We really don't know anything about this man, but her attitude in that moment makes it seem like he looks for trouble and that he isn't very pleasant much of the time even though he is pretty much harmless. The point when Wallace starts drinking with the woman and tells her about his line of work and that he just came off a bad fight is an interesting thing to me. Here is this total stranger, but he somehow feels comfortable enough to go into some detail about his personal life. I think it might be him filling up some kind of void. His daughter doesn't want to talk to him, his ex-girlfriend doesn't want to hear excuses and yet here is this woman that is all ears for him. It is a temporarily pleasant form of human interaction that he longs for. Maybe for a moment, someone understands him. The ending left me wanting more. What happens when the man appears out of nowhere and opens the door? Is he forgiving? Does he come in with bad intentions? It is up to the reader to decide. That last line about the smell of the air being delightful makes all the difference. Regardless of what may happen after, Wallace at least experiences some kind of delight, which seems to be absent from his life throughout the rest of the story.