"Do you recall the judgment of the dead," my father speaks up at last, "when the heart of a person is put on a scale? If it's heavy, the heart, then this person cannot enter the other world."
The dew breaker decides to confess to his daughter that he is not a martyr she sees him to be. He decides to come upfront with the lies he told her over the years how he was a prisoner, he decides to reveal to her that he was the one who actually put people in prison, tortured and killed them. This sudden change of heart and expression of honesty is fuelled by the sculpture Ka made of him, a sculpture that materialized a life built on lies.
"They could carry out their public wedding march in silence, a temporary silence, unlike the one that had come over them now."
The "Seven" story portrays a couple that became alienated from each other as a result of seven years of separation. They didn't have time to build real intimacy of marriage and the silence, not a temporary silence, which has fallen over them now, is a result of that.
"He hadn't been a famous "dew breaker", or torturer, anyway, just one of the hundreds who had done their jobs so well that their victims were never able to speak of them again."
These are the thoughts of a wife who tries to justify her husband by any means necessary. By justifying her husband she is justifying herself, or rather, her own choice to marry and spend the life with a man with that kind of past. This sentence is filled with contradiction. Her husband wasn't a torturer; he wasn't a monster, just one of many who'd done their job very well. And what did that job include other than being a killer and torturer, a "dew breaker".
"There was no way to escape this dread anymore, this pendulum between regret and forgiveness, this fright that the most important relationships of her life were always on the verge of being severed or lost..."
"The Dew Breaker" finishes off with Anne's expression of regret, expression of pain at always being fearful of losing the people in her life. She is a woman who decided to be an angel for her husband, closing all of her senses to the truth, avoiding facing it and cover it up with a sheet of forgiveness which only resulted in self-doubt.
