Crabbe part 3

This part starts of with Crabbe having not just ordinary feelings but love for Mary. "Because I realized one sunny day as I sat on the shore watching her swim, gracefully moving her long, golden limbs through the clear water, I loved her" (96).
She was the only person who made Crabbe "feel necessary. Not important: necessary. I mattered to her"(124). After that Mary said that " 'it's time we planned your re-entry into civilization' "(97). Crabbe then expresses his love to her but knows that he will have to leave the woods someday.

They planned their "last trek together"(99) to Ithbaca Lake. Unfortunately Mary passed away. "She lay on her back, twisted and broken by her fall to the jagged rocks on the valley floor."(119). Crabbe then starts to find out why Mary was spending time in the forest for a long time. It turned out that she committed euthanasia on her husband. Since the law was against euthanasia she escaped hence in the forest.

Mary and Crabbe have person vs self conflicts. Euthanasia is definetly a person vs self conflict because she faces hard decisions on her husband's life. Crabbe also has person vs self conflicts because he is fighting with himself to express his love towards Mary, and going back to his parents or staying in the forest.