Without Diana story
George Willoughby and his dying wife Kathryn are comforted by Diana, the daughter they had lost in the woods 40 years ago, and never stopped believing would appear one last time before they passed on. Directed by: Lesli Linka Glatter. Story by: Mick Garris.
18 total · 2 choice · 7 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with the death of a child | choice | George and Kathryn mourned for Diana who had gone missing in the forest and was presumed dead. |
| letting go of the past | choice | When his wife died, George was told by Diana that he must let her go. One gathers that neither he nor Kathryn had quite let go of Diana after she disappeared in the forest some 40 years earlier. |
| father and daughter | major | George never lost hope that his young daughter, Diana, would resurface after disappeared in the woods without a trace. |
| ghost | major | One gathers that Diana's ghost returned to visit George and Kathryn some 40 years after she went missing in the woods without a trace. In the end, Kathryn passed away and her ghost and the ghost of Diana bid farewell to George, assuring him that he would join them in due time. |
| husband and wife | major | George and Kathryn Willoughby loved their daughter, Diana, and she still figured deeply into their daily lives even some 40 years after she'd gone missing in the woods without a trace. |
| mother and daughter | major | Katheryn never lost hope that her young daughter, Diana, would resurface after disappeared in the woods without a trace. |
| parental love | major | George and Kathryn Willoughby loved their daughter, Diana, and she still figured deeply into their daily lives even some 40 years after she'd gone missing in the woods without a trace. |
| reunion with a loved one | major | George and Kathryn's daughter Diana showed up on their doorstep some 40 years having vanished in the woods without a trace. One gathers that it was actually Diana's ghost as she hadn't aged a day. |
| the need for closure | major | George and Kathryn's lives were forever changed when their daughter Diana vanished without a trace in the forest, never to be seen again. They never stopped believing Diana would appear one last time before they passed on. |
| absentee father | minor | George sought to explain to Diana why he had been away for so long. His pleas for her understanding fell on deaf ears. |