The play Coming Home by Athol Fugard reaches deep into the human psyche and explores how our memories affect our actions and feelings in everyday life. One of the main characters in the play Veronica is plagued by memories of her childhood, and her young adult life. She ran away to Cape Town to pursue her dream of being a singer, but Veronica just ended up destitute, with a child, no job, and AIDS. (p 60) By the time she decided to come home and rectify her bad relationship her father was dead. (p 15) All she had was her son and her old friend Alfred. All Alfred can do to cheer Veronica up is to tell her old stories of her father, him and her, and for a little while it helps, but eventually she just gets angry and shows the true depth, and agony of her pain. “Memories, they’re stupid and useless. I wish to God I didn’t have any. Because if you think the can make me happy, you got another guess coming” (p 48) She said. Veronica said that she would rather have no memories at all because all her memories hurt her so badly, even the good ones. Fugard’s play addresses one of the most complex parts of the human mind and insists to the reader that our memories really are important, the good and the bad. Because they shape us into the people that we are today.