Laurel is the main character who faces trouble accepting her sisters death. She is not able to forgive May, her sister, and it affects her own social life with accepting people to enter her life. Forgiveness is the antagonist that Laurel encounters throughout Love Letters to the Dead, in other words Laurel is her own antagonist. May would take Laurel to the movies but would leave her with Billy, one of Mays friends. Billy would take Laurel and would molest her and Laurel did not tell May until it occurred multiple times. On the day May died was the day Laurel told her about Billy molesting her. Since May left her with Billy to go with a guy instead of watching Laurel and spending time with her, Laurel could not forgive May. Throughout the book
