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Everyone comments upon the resemblance between Alan and Tom. The Andersons even believe them to be one and the same! This resemblance may be no coincidence. It is said in The Alan Wake Files that Alan often writes about men who have issues with absent fathers and one of his short stories correlates this. It's about a man who resents his father until he realizes the man is caught in a terrible curse and is only trying to protect him from a crew of undead sailors. This mirrors how Alan sees Zane as a figure of some mystery and menace until he realizes Zane granted power to the Clicker so that Wake could survive his battle with the Dark Presence. The rocking horse in the cabin suggests that Zane may well have fathered a child there, perhaps with Barbara.
* Zane took his last dive 40 years ago, and Alan is only 32.
** Alan ''thinks'' he's only 32. Remember Lindsay from [[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]? It's possible he's older than that.
** Unless Zane is Alan's father in the metaphorical sense, meaning Zane wrote Alan into existence and vice-versa, all leading back to the previous WMG.
* Doesn't really work; Zane lost his wife, but it's Alan's father who was gone. That would mean that Alan's mother would have to be Barbara ''after'' becoming the Dark Presence's avatar, which clearly doesn't work (she's obviously not normal, and besides, why would she give him the Clicker?).
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The key word in this poem is "ocean". Oceans play no direct part in the plot, but references pop up in two other places, and, like this poem, are symbolic references. The first is in "Children of the Elder God", where Odin and Tor say, "You've (the Dark Presence) been taking slaves/like ocean waves,/now feel the ocean seethe." The second is the ending, where Alan says, "It's not a lake... it's an ocean."
The lyrics in "Children of the Elder God" point to the "ocean" being the slaves Taken by the Dark Presence. Unlike Thomas Zane, Alan escaped, became the [[Spanner in
== The state of the townsfolk after it's all over. ==
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Throughout the story he has to deal with the possibility that he is dreaming or having a psychotic episode. Zane wrote him into existence with the name "A. Wake" as a subtle/unconscious clue that it's all really happening to him.
== Address Unknown and possibly [[Max Payne (
Purely on the basis that Alan is a mystery/horror writer, Remedy loves their [[Continuity Nod|Continuity Nods]], and it only makes both games more surreal.
* Confirmed. Max Payne is Alan Wake's story. In the beginning of Episode 2 of Alan Wake, the player can find the manuscripts of Max's {{spoiler|final moments}}.
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