sentences:  He wonders if he killed his parents and suspects that in a way, probably due to years of having to cope with his aberrant behaviour, he at least brought them a little closer to death.He has never married and so the family line – assuming he has no brother – will end with him, effectively killing off the family name.Scholars generally accept Beckett's own explanation of the title for this work, that it is merely the surviving portion of a novel.