The Impact of Guilt

The It Girl examines how guilt motivates. Hannah is motivated by guilt to determine if Neville was really responsible for killing April. She fears that she took Neville’s life from him by condemning him to prison and that she stole that life that April might have enjoyed when she married Will. Hannah still carries some guilt after Neville is posthumously exonerated because she was so quick to accuse Neville just because he was different.

Will is glad when he learns Neville is dead because he thinks that they can finally get on with their lives, but Hannah suddenly fears she condemned a guilty man to die in prison. When Hannah looks at a picture of Neville just before his death, she noticed that he looks old and haunted. Even when she looks away from the picture, she can “still feel his eyes...