Gately and the wraith — "no one else in the wraith…"
no one else in the wraith and boy’s nuclear family would see or acknowledge this […] They looked but did not see his invisibility. And they listened but did not hear the wraith’s warning.
Context
Here is Gertrude-blindness made the whole nuclear family's condition and stated in flat scriptural cadence. The wraith watched his "graceful and marvelous boy" — the son who did everything with the "natural unslumped grace" the father lacked — go "steadily more and more hidden" toward the end, disappearing "right before their eyes," and the family did nothing, because they could not perceive it: "They looked but did not see his invisibility. And they listened but did not hear the wraith's warning." It's the exact failure 154 stages live — Avril reciting the clinical definition of her son's disassociation and unable to see it in front of her — now generalized to the entire household and given the Isaiah/Gospel rhythm of eyes that see not. And it doubles as the frame's cruelest joke about the ghost itself: when the father stood up and waved his arms to make them attend to the vanishing son, "they'd thought all his agitation meant was that he had gone bats from Wild Turkey" and needed to get sober again. The one who saw was dismissed as a drunk; the seeing died with him.