David loves Jack, Rosemary’s son, like his own son. He loves to play with Jack and holds his hand when they are walking p.394. Moreover, he makes an
account for him under Rosemary’s name p.401. Seeing Jack makes he wonders about his memory with Paul.
“The truth was, he loved to watch the boy. He loved to read Jack stories, feeling his weight and warmth, his head falling against his shoulder as he
drifted nearly into sleep. He loved to hold his small trusting hand when they walked down the side-walk to the store” p.394 .
He is sad when Rosemary and Jack are going to move and leave him. They have been his companions since he divorces with Norah and moves from his
house p.399.
b. A Good Doctor
Since he was a boy, David is a very smart boy. He is able to go to school because he gets a scholarship. He wants to be a doctor after June’s dead. It is his
mom who asks him to study and help the world. Actually deep inside his heart, he feels guilty because he is still alive, while his sister is buried on the ground. He
feels sorry for her, which is why he wants to be a doctor. He chooses to be an orthopedic doctor because he is amazed by his feet bone. Once he ever gets his
feet to be X-rayed and he is amazed by the mysterious figure of his feet p.195. David is known to be a very good doctor. He has a great ability in diagnosing
and very skillful. He graduated when he is very young. He is the first student who graduated in his class p.9. He is happy with his profession. “He enjoy his
profession as a doctor and very happy with it. He was pleased-it was good to be
able to help people in need, to offer healing-something he could not seem to do for those he loved the most” p.137.
He is a dedicated doctor. He does not mind to wake up in the middle of the night when he gets call from hospital p.143. Every Tuesday nights, he treats
patients for free. That is why many people would come and fill the waiting room. He often stays until midnight to treat his patients.
“Then rising to open the office doors again on Tuesday nights, a free clinic for patients who could not afford to pay him. The waiting room was always
full on those nights, and he was often still there when Caroline finally went home at midnight, so weary herself that she could barely think” p.38.
Caroline even cannot hate him because she remembers how devoted David is with his patients. He really cares and loves his patients.
“She wanted to hate him still, but she remembered how many nights he had stayed in the clinic, treating patients who could not afford the care they
needed. Patients from countryside, from the mountains, who made the arduous trip to Lexington, short on money, long on hope. The other clinics
partner had not liked it, but Dr. Henry had not stopped” p.82. After he divorces and moves out, he decides to leave his former practice,
because a man, who becomes his patient for twenty years, is turned away because he lacks of health insurance p.398. Now, David has his own practice and he
takes care of everyone rich or poor. He works not for money anymore. Money is not the reason why he is still being a doctor. He does not mind when some of his
patients do not pay him in a form of money but with field produce or yard work p.398. When he died, many people come to his funeral and fill the little church.
They are his patients whose lives are saved by him p.417.
c. Likes to Collect Stone and Photography
