Teddy and Dolores | Shutter Island | Dream sequence
2Teddy is the main character in the book. A decorated soldier, he is a US Marshall dispatched to Shutter Island by Senator Hurly to investigate what is really going on there and also to help with the search for a patient who has gone missing. Teddy also has a motive of his own in visiting the island; he wants to find a patient called Andrew Laeddis who was responsible for killing Teddy's wife, Dolores. Teddy misses Dolores badly and dreams about her almost every night, and still uses what he thinks she would do in certain situations as his guide.
For most of his adult life, Teddy was a soldier of some description but found himself a changed man after being part of the liberation force at Dachau concentration camp. The prisoners there had been tortured in the most brutal and atrocious way, and the soldiers who liberated the camp and saw this with their own eyes had no qualms about lining up the SS officers responsible and shooting them. Later, though, Teddy felt guilt about shooting unarmed men and decided that in the future he would shoot to kill only if his own life depended on it.
Throughout the novel, Teddy appears to be a diligent and skilled investigator. He reads people well and pursues leads to their logical conclusion. It is very easy to see why he believes something dangerous and underhanded is going on, which is why it is a shock when Dr. Cawley's asserts that Teddy is, in fact, Andrew Laeddis and was in fact committed to Shutter Island himself two years previously for killing his wife after she murdered their three children. It turns out that Rachel Solando, the "missing patient," is a figment of his imagination, created because he is unable to accept what Dolores did and overwhelmed with guilt about his failure to take her mental problems seriously. He has apparently been carrying on the same charade since his arrival.
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