In this quote, Jack starts to suspects Mr. Harvey as his daughter's murderer. He uses his needs to find Susie's killer as a way to keep his mind off but unfortunately, there is no evidence that will point out that Mr. Harvey is the murderer. The fact that Susie is no longer with them, Jack becomes obsess against Mr. Harvey. He decides to bring justice for his daughter's sake and allows this goal to completely engulf his life. Susie's death starts to immerse Jack life that leads him to begin not noticing the people around him including his son, Buckley Salmon. He is the last character that the author uses to express anger. Buckley develops anger towards his father after 8 years of his sister's death. One day, Buckley and his father talking about the clothes that Buckley asks to use for his garden, until Buckley gets mad to his father and saying, "Us Dad, me and Lindsey. Mom left because she couldn't take it." (Sebold 257). Jack tries to forget Susie, but still he cannot do it. This is the time when Buckley realizes that his father is still in the process of moving on. Also, Buckley is already 13 years old that time and this is the start where he can understand what is going on around him. Therefor, anger develops emotional and physical behaviour towards the characters that lead them to the next stage which depression. .
The second stage of grief is depression, which is commonly express by the people who lost their loved one. Alice Sebold's novel, The Lovely Bones, uses Jack, Abigail and Lindsey Salmon as her examples of the one of the five stages of grief, which is depression. To begin, Jack Salmon is one of the characters who shows his behavior of being depress to the readers. For example, as Susie narrates the story and she comes to chapter five of the novel saying, "The guilt on him, the hand of God pressing down on him saying, 'you were not there when you daughter needed you'".