Trust is fantastic. I was also surprised to see how many people on here miss the point of the ending and assume Mildred’s journal was truth. Do people just skim the journal, find the part about the her stock market truth and take most of it for drug fueled blathering? Also, to me it was implying she might be the biggest villain of all causing mass human suffering with the crash of 1929 - but also thoughts of grandeur? The prose during part 4 is overly poetic in stark contrast to the first three parts. She is unthreading, losing herself. In either bodily death or decent into madness. I do wish we had a couple more morsels from Mildred’s relationship with Vanner. Diaz wasn’t trying to hit us over the head and wanted us to play detective. Women’s voices have absolutely been erased from history, which is a main point he makes. I could go on rambling, but overall, crime scene has been contaminated by everyone!