I think, after reading your comments, I feel like this story is actually about grief of both the narrator and the character we see!!
At first, I was a little shook by the story and didn't fully understand where to start, but the longer I read (i played the game 3 times to try and understand it lmao it took me a while), the less sexist I believed it was, and more it came across as a friend or someone in the community of this small town to not see her friend or this person they admired, die a hopeless death, someone who provided hope and love to them and others in the community. desperately trying to investigate how she died and understand what lied beyond the surface of killing herself.
Interpreting the story this way made me understand and appreciate the story a lottt more. Your questions below made me realize some more things about the game and the implications!! I've been playing too many horror games recently so I was scared it was something a lot darker, but I've interpreted it this way and if this is the way it is meant to be interpreted, it's super sweet and is making me shed a tear icllll ;-;