Outside The Kitchen Gruesser Summary

Gruesser explains this story based on the environment of where they were living and compared the characters by animals. The family lived in a small town on a small farm. Outside the house, the family has a yard. The yard represents a space to where anybody is comfortable enough to escape from the world. In the reader’s eyes, the yard was described as filthy. The mother works very hard in her yard and spends a lot of time in her yard. The outdoors is a place of freedom in her eyes. In order, for her to choose, who gets to have the quilt or not. She actually escapes to the yard from everybody else to help guide her in her decision. Maggie character is more compared to a wounded dog. She is a woman, who often back down from people. She seems to