
Married to Gowan, she can never hope to escape that moment.for even his mere presence is a constant reminder. She is trapped forever in the moment of her life in which she gets into a car with a drunkard and leaves her life and self behind.

She fails to understand, even herself, what makes her unable to feel emotion as others do, and she carries the blame within her for her obvious shortcomings. I view her as a damaged soul, someone who has been so marred by life that she can no longer function. I, unlike so many, do not view Temple as an evil person.

There was more to her story and it must have haunted him, as it haunted me, for he returned to her twenty years later to put her soul under a microscope. Faulkner obviously could not leave Temple Drake as we last saw her in Sanctuary.
