Using the quotes below, and any others you think are relevant, answer the question: What is Milkman’s attitude toward his past?
“But riding backward made him uneasy. It was like flying blind, and not knowing where he was going – just where he had been – troubled him. He did not want to see trees that he had passed, or houses and children slipping into the space the automobile had left behind.” (32)
And then, after peeing on his sister:
“He didn’t mean it. It happened before he was through. It was becoming a habit – this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had.
But the future did not arrive, the present did extend itself, and the uncomfortable little boy in the Packard went to school…” (35)
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