cge

Sidney, after recovering from a fatal ill, started trying to be a writer again.

Writing novels is good to Sid. He took his life and his thoughts as his resources and wrote them down. These processes of writing gave him a chance to survey his marriage. And eventually he found some horrible facts he never knew.

A lot of reviews take the note which Sid brought for writing as a crucial part in Oracle Night, but this viewpoint does not make much sense to me.

The note did not help Sid to explore the secrets of the marriage. It was merely a symbol for a period of time in which Sid found something weird but still did not take actions to think what the problem was. The time the note was tossed represented Sid said goodbye to those unconscious old days and tried to construct what happened among he, his wife and their friend.

Oracle Night is a story about cheats and choices. The "oracle", I think, means what Sid thought was true. What would he do after knowing the affaire between his wife and his friend? I don't know. But I think it's would be another story.