We All Have a Past In the play, Rosmersholm, by Henrik Ibsen, the white horse symbolizes the past we can’t release. All of us have a past. Not only are we born into this world beholden to those who have come before us, made up of the flesh, dreams, and stories of our ancestors, but our own histories, events, and experiences mold themselves into our DNA. In the book Live Bait by P. J. Tracy, a police officer, Gino Rolseth, notices a scar on the chest of a retired colleague. Upon learning that the man’s own father had cut him, he closes his eyes and thinks “of all the history…