Babylon Revisited

In the story "Babylon Revisited", there is a main character, Charlie, who is a recovering alcoholic. This story hits me on a personal level having lived with an alcoholic father. I could not remember a time when i was a young boy that my father did not have a drink in his hand. He was almost always intoxicated, it didn't matter what we would be doing. In the story, Charlie has made the choice to either cut back or stop drinking completely. Much like my father, Charlie only has 1 drink a day, whether it serves as a reminder of the life he used to live or to remember what he lost because of the drink. Either way, whatever its for it seems to be working for him. He is on the track to get his life back and retrieve his daughter to make up for lost time. Also, the ideas of disipation and dissolution in the story help us to configure the thought of something turning into nothing...