The Marsh Part 2

I thought that the end of The Marsh was wierd. I began to get confused about what was real and what was just a hallucinatory fantasy. I understood the first 12 chapters and it seemed as the story went on the more confusing it began. In chapter 13 he goes to the river and sees a motor boat and gets on the platform it is tied to and rocks it but then a family comes and takes a ride and has to pay fifteen tomans. And the ride only lasts a short amount of time and when the narrator asks the boy if he could take him a little further the boy refuses. I understood why the boy would refuse because the water was too shallow and if he tried his boat would get stuck. So he did not take a boat ride.

Next the narrator has another dream about his father and he dreams that he is in a row boat with his father and Mr. Golchin, his fourth grade teacher. They are headed for the marsh and so he jumps out of the boat at the very end to avoid going there all the while it being a dream. He wakes up to hitting his head on the corner of the table in the living room of his former aunt's house. Then he tells his wife about his dream and she falls asleep in the middle of his description.

After that night all he does is dream of his father and you never know if he is living in the present or simply in a dream. He begins to see his father at his shop and at his house that he has with Hamid and Khashayar and he starts to see him everywhere.

He then goes to his elementary school to find out about Mr. Golchin and figure out why he also keeps appearing in his dreams. At the school he finds out from the secretary that Mr. Golchin drowned in the river. And he also finds out that he was the swimming champion of Isfahan.

As the story goes on he ends up divorcing his wife/cousin and gives her the shop for a price and moves back in with his two roommates. He keeps seeing his father everywhere and you never know if he's just gone crazy or if he is hallucinating or if his father is really there. I thought that the end was odd, because it sounds like he goes into the river and ends up drowning. Overall I thought the more you read the more confusing it became. I'm not sure if I really like this story at all. It just got to confusing and jumbled and became like a puzzle that had missing pieces and I'm not sure if sense could be made out of this.