Redemption and Fault and Consequence

I am not the sum of my characters. I must learn to separate what I think from what they think, my wants from theirs. I took an objective look at something I wrote a year ago. Back then, I thought it was almost flawless except for one tiny detail that I couldn't figure out. Now I have. I believed the first person narrative was exactly as the character would tell the story, but it wasn't. The character has suffered more than I thought and he knew that his suffering was not over. The story cannot be about redemption because the character is of no such deserve; the story is of fault and consequence. And it goes much deeper than the weight of my pen.