ering the interpretations of the event from all the people who were present at the restaurant. However this will still not be fact it is still a story of events passed.
             McEwan uses the form of the modern novel to explore these ideas. He uses the genre of a psychological thriller which facilitates the manipulation of the reader, and is a study of the internal workings of the mind, for example he uses a dramatic opening and develops suspense as the protagonists and reader obsessively search for the truth, to try and make order out of chaos. He uses false trails, like when McEwan builds up the fact that somebody is behind Joe, the reader starts to believe it is Jed but in fact it is just Clarissa. In the main story there is also the sub story of Jean Logan believing her husband had an affair, she comes to this conclusion just because of the
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