Discussion & Study Guide

A Companion Guide to A Season in Hell
By Michael Levine, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, Kenyon College
Thanks are extended to Walter Brock and Mary Jo Netherton for their assistance and support
© Copyright 1990  

We got the yogurt, we sat in the parking lot in the dark, and ate the yogurt and talked, and I felt this overpowering loneliness, hopelessness. I think what I was feeling was . . . . the first bathroom we stopped at, she might throw it up. It wasn't just a young girl having a snack in the middle of the night, it was a young girl fighting a battle, and maybe it was one she was going to lose that night, and maybe it was one she was always going to lose; I was very discouraged and very depressed. I felt at that moment we were lying to ourselves, that we were pretending that, oh, we were two ordinary people going to get some frozen yogurt and everything was going to be fine. We'd drive down the road, reach our destination, and we'd be like two ordinary people, and yet I knew we weren't.

 --Mary Jo Netherton, Regina's friend and support group leader.

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