Stella’s stories about the history of the island based on her life experiences and her possible delusions make this fictional space exactly what spacetime is described as. This conclusion can be validated through Stella’s visions of her husband. At “some point” he existed and then ceased to exist in the real word but continued to live through Stella’s hallucinations. Everyone on the island experienced Russell Bowie’s death, but Stella imagines him in the afterlife and the wife he left behind will dream of him.
Spacetime thrives here because on this island, the people are tied to each other in ways that surpass that of a neighbor label. Their experiences are interconnected but each person will remember, dream or even hallucinate some events or people more than others,