Flashback from the Past?

When reading over the story I came to an assumption that this whole situation that Anders happened to be in might not be so unfamiliar to him, unlike the other bystanders in the bank. With the bank robbers representing an abusive figure within the home (his father) and the women (in front of him, the bank teller) that weave throughout the whole situation (that represent his submissive his mother), it is a flashback down memory lane in his own family-complex--which I also believe spur the actual flashbacks that he encounters when the bullet passes through his brain.

Anders might have grown up in an abusive environment in which physical threats were everyday good mornings. This also explains why he is so verbally outspoken and a book critic whose "weary" and almost always "dispatched" writing is always evident--the only way he could fight back in the relationship and on going situations at home was probably verbally. He might not have been big enough, strong enough, or had the weapons to fight against his father, but with his words that he kept inside (wrote down, escaped in within reading books, or even said aloud) now leak through the unconscious in his everyday life. It even could have been that he was upfront verbally within that atmosphere and felt it was the only way that he could defeat his father. He criticized the robbers word choice, and he was very blunt and outspoken in a situation that shouldn't have been--just like within a situation at home when he was fighting with the only thing he had (his voice) and he knew that would be the only thing to be victorious over his father with.

The flashbacks that occur after the bullet contacts his brain are also factors that foretell of his past expierences in an abusive situation. I also thought it was interesting when said that those flashbacks were "long since lost to memory." Some of the things that were conveyed (past relationships, his family, a woman leaping to her death ect.) should not have been forgotten--no normal person would forget those memories! These memories have been suppressed and been placed in Anders memory in a defense content of unconscious in which may have been using selective memory to modify the memories to forget the painful and overwhelming dilemmas--just like his past abusive life. When he stepped inside of that oh-so-familiar circumstance and when the bullet hit his brain, those memories unfolded just like the pages of the books he so "elegantly" critiques.