I wasn’t convinced that the main character was suicidal. I mean, the writer shows us how his son died from cancer and his wife left, but in and of itself, those aren’t reasons for just anyone to want to kill themselves. This is a major issue for the story because the whole premise is based on it. I just didn’t see the arc for him, to go from wanting to kill himself to wanting to fight back and live. He only thinks he wants to die and if that was what the writer was going for then there are no issues but I don’t think that’s the case. Speaking from experience, when you really want to die, your self-preservation button is disabled. You aren’t thinking rationally at all and killing yourself seems like the only valid option. I wasn’t getting that from the main character at all.
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