The next clue that Piwinski notes foreshadows the families’ death by the grandmother’s response to her grandson. ‘The grandmother, unaware of her own family's imminent doom, jokingly replies, "Gone with the Wind."’ “Gone with the Wind” alludes to the book of Psalms in the Bible. The allusion represents “only through death can one hope to gain eternal life.” Piwinski explains that the grandmother has not comprehended the significance of death while being a Christian. The grandmother
understands this when she is faced with death, and it is not until the misfit is about to kill her that she comprehends and ‘"recognizes the Misfit as one of her own children and reaches out to touch him."’ Although the grandmother dies, her soul has been set free to live the eternal life.