In the Icebound Hothouse

Within the reading of the Icebound Hothouse by William Goyen I found some important information that may help the reader understand what the writer feels at a certain point. In my opinion, the second paragraph on page 242 is one of the most important of the whole short story. This paragraph sums up what is going on and helps gives the reader an insight of what is going to become explained of events that have already happened. The second paragraph tells us, the readers, that the passage is from a "suspicious witness" who is housed in a Detention House. The "witness" shows how much there is to question of what is going on and how unclear his own thought process is about a certain incident. What we do find out is that there were no other live witnesses other then this single man. The only person who knew what was going on in the first place was the naked women who fell from, as the book states, "a high window from the biology lab". The woman holds so much mystery through out this story, there was no reason why she was happening to fall through the greenhouse roof or what the man in the Nurseryman had in common with her. To the "suspicious witness" she was the one who opened the way to letting him into the hothouse. Even from the beginning of the story we find out that this was loitering around the hothouse. The hothouse seems to be some type of lure to the man and his only crime was that he wanted to get in the hothouse. The man finally gets his way in to what seems to be the forbidden hothouse through the woman falling and creating an entrance for the man.
Even with this paragraph the writer sees how his mind set changes from what it once was a "...like a custard at simmer" to what it is now giving him quick fast thoughts. He admits to these problems being the symptoms of his head problems.