Throughout the novel, Zampanò and sources that he cites attribute this career choice to the nature of Navidson’s childhood. His distant parents are often brought up as a source of turmoil in Will’s childhood, forcing him to adopt a worldview that sees everything as fleeting and temporary. These sources claim that through photography, Navidson is trying to make inherently temporal moments permanent (Danielewski 22). This method of capturing and preserving a moment represents a concreteness of fact that few things in this novel offer. The photography and the permanence that it offers is Navidson’s counter to the unknowable, inconsistent house.