How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Claude comes back with the beer and I say "Thank you" and glance up at him and his face dissolves and re-forms, he was about eight the last time I was here; he used to peddle worms in rusted tin cans to the fishermen down by the government dock. He's uneasy now, he can tell I recognize him. (3.18)
Here, the narrator describes a kind of a film-like dissolve in her mind, by which Claude's adult face melts into his face as a child, which she suddenly remembers and recognizes. This device creates a sense that memories are floating around everywhere around this place, just waiting to seep into the narrator's consciousness.
Quote #5
It was before I was born but I can remember it as clearly as if I saw it, and perhaps I did see it: I believe that an unborn baby has its eyes open and can look out through the walls of the mother's stomach, like a frog in a jar. (3.34)
Apparently even memories that aren't the narrator's can bleed into her consciousness. Although it's (probably?) not literally true that can remember seeing her brother's drowning from inside the womb, the image suggests the power of the past to be retained and remembered.
Quote #6
We begin to climb and my husband catches up with me again, making one of the brief appearances, framed memories he specializes in: crystal clear image enclosed by a blank wall. (5.33)
That husband dude is back again, essentially sprinting after the narrator and back into her consciousness. Hmm, we wonder why memories of him would be chasing her. Why would she be running from it?