Memento

I really enjoyed this story, it was mysterious and very ironic. The story is about a man who has lost his memory, wife, and even his way of living. The man has to write himself notes to remember what has happened to him. I think that it is amazing that he was able to accomplish so much without the basic memories that we all take for granted in our daily life's.
I was unaware at the beginning of the story that it is the man who is writing the letters about the revenge that he needs to take for the death of his wife. I was surprised when it was later revealed that the person who is urging him to murder, is in fact himself. I loved that this side of him did not relate to the person who he had become. It allowed the letters to take on a life of their own, without detracting from his current situation. The person who was writing the letters was a past version of himself, during a few moments of clarity, which is cleverly referenced in the story during one letter. It made the story very intriguing.
The man was able to accomplish the murder of his wife's rapist by following the simple clues that he left for himself. I loved the idea of the tattoos designed in reverse so that he was able to read them in the mirror. This took from the idea that was presented in the beginning of the story of placing notes where he was unable to miss or forget them.
The notes turned out to be self defeating in the end. As I understood the ending of the story, he was unable to document the event that he had spent so much effort in trying to accomplish. This led me to believe that he would then have forgot that he had killed the man, and so that when he read his notes, he would believe that he still needed to get revenge for the death of his wife.