Day Four Summary and Analysis

Before Sam even wakes on Day Four, she is seething with anger and hurls her alarm clock against the wall. When she sees Lindsey in the morning, she can barely even look at her: "She's a fraud: the whole world is a fraud, one bright, shiny scam. And somehow I'm the one paying for it. I'm the one who died. I'm the one who's trapped" (p. 135). She dresses in her most provocative clothing and defiantly wears them to school even though her parents forbade her. Even though she knows it isn't rational, Sam is angry with her parents, thinking they have no right to protect her now - where were they when she was dying? When the last seconds of her life were slipping away? Today, she is going to do whatever she wants because there are no consequences...