of the words regarding the sunset being a metaphor for life and the loss of life as a day leaves us are later confirmed "The sky takes on content, feeling, an exalted narrative life. ... Some people are scared by the sunsets, some determined to be elated, but most of us don't know how to feel, are ready to go either way" (Delillo 324). This ca be seen as the way that many people feel about death, unknowing with some completely unafraid an others consumed by fear. But the sunset is the same for us all, no matter what we feel and jacks final acceptance of death was the acceptance within his own mind. In facing death by way of the toxic chemical he had not seen the facts but not accepted the inevitable consequence of life, whenever it happens. In facing death as an accepted inevitability he starts to find beauty in life...
