Talk:Midnight Train/@comment-28552148-20160620125534/@comment-31077845-20170209235505

I know that was a little confusing, the author kept it vague, but there's a couple important parts that explain it.

In the section about his (disgusting) father coming home drunk and basically raping his mother (which was considered ok back then, fun fact. Spousal rape wasn't even recognized as a thing until pretty recently, and the laws are still pretty ambiguous in some states) it mentions Sandra and whether or not she fought or let "him" take her every night. So at this point you can tell she's being raped by someone.

In the section about Claire reminding him of Sandra, he mentions that Sandra's father loved her "a little too much". From this we can infer it was her father raping her. It also mentions 6 feet of rope removing something important from your life, and also in his dreams seeing a dark mark around her neck. So yeah, like Milan said, she hung herself.

It also mentions Sandra having something inside her that was horrible but she wanted to be beautiful, which I'm assuming means her father got her pregnant, which might further explain why she killed herself.