![]() Months go by and Paul is not doing well, They meet up again to see if they can give each other support, but it is obvious that Donnelly still believes that Paul was drunk when he hit them. Donnelly tries to look to religion for comfort but they are unable to give him the support he needs, he rejects the help they try to give over and over and eventually they give upon him. Donnelly decides to meet up with Paul to make peace with him, but Paul isn’t coping with what he had done either, he swears to Donnelly that he wasn’t drinking when the accident happened, but Donnelly continues to try and find the truth. As he was nursing a serious leg injury from the crash, Donnelly becomes addicted to his pain medication and starts quick descent into depression. Donnelly is stricken with grief of his loves death he withdraws from society and becomes a hermit. ![]() Donnelly continues to visit Esther every day while she is in hospital, eventually Esther dies. ![]() As we move deeper into the Island we metaphorically move deeper into the mind of Donnelly, we hear of his relationship with Esther and his continual search for answers to why the accident happened. As the player moves through the island, cryptic poetry unfolds to show us that some form of motor accident had occurred. The player starts out on an Island, an Island which is made up of the culmination of Donnelly’s deep grief induced madness and his eventual disconnecting from society. Paul eventually dies from a weak heart and as Donnelly contemplates life without Esther he takes his own life in a hope to be with his beloved again.īasing the Story on the above premise leads me to the below elaboration. IMO, Dear Esther is about a man (Donnelly) who has a car accident with another drunk driver (Paul Jakobson) and loses his wife (Esther) to a coma and then eventually death, Donnelly although making peace with Paul cannot get past the grief of losing his wife and becomes addicted to his medication.
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