Semester Reading 11-26 Update

After reading multiple chapters in the novel, The Third Rail, I can understand Harkness even more now. He is even more troubled by his past as I believed before, and as the book has progressed, he seems to not have the ability to let go of those mistakes. He is constantly getting into trouble and getting drunk which is only hurting him in the present. He thinks this will get him to forget the mistakes he made in the past but this is clearly not true. People are taking advantage of him in his poor mental state as they did things like steal his gun or other such hooligans. It seems he really has made no change since prior to the beginning of the book when he made that huge mistake as a cop. This would be seen as the only catalyst but it isn't really even in the book. Hopefully he is able to change in move on later in the story.