She was an inmate and patient at Ashecliffe Hospital, a federal penal institution for the criminally insane, housed in a Civil War-era former barracks on the island. Now, in 1954, he's sent back out to Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of murderess Rachel Solando. Teddy Daniels grew up a boat ride's distance away, then went on to fight honorably in World War II before becoming a marshal and being stationed in his hometown. The rocky isle from which Lehane takes his title is supposedly one of four located immediately outside the busy harbor of Boston, Massachusetts. In Shutter Island, what should be nourishing is not-and what appears to be reality is not, either. Water, in Teddy's migraine-induced dreams, is a cruel instrument of death, and the heavy rains at the midpoint of Lehane's novel cause considerable physical and psychic damage. Early on in this story we're told that when Teddy's fisherman father took him out on his boat for the first time, the still patches of water caused the boy to throw up "violently, pitching black ropes of it" into the sea. marshal at the center of Dennis Lehane 's second standalone novel, Shutter Island, water is as dangerous as acid. But to Edward "Teddy" Daniels, the troubled U.S. Water has long been represented in literature as a positive force of nature, a source of rebirth and change.
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