Memory in fiction is not always a straightforward record of the past. How a character remembers an event may shape narrative order, voice and emotional meaning.
Readers can examine flashbacks, non-linear chronology, recurring motifs and gaps between what a narrator claims and what the story suggests. These devices do not automatically justify clinical conclusions about a character.
A useful analysis studies one scene at three levels: observable events, the character’s emotional response and the writer’s narrative technique. Then explain how these layers construct the experience of remembering.