Popular Mechanics Raymond Carver Summary

As I read the short story, “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver I learned that the small things in life matter the most. As I read on, towards the end of the story, the two, now divorced, parents were arguing over a baby. The baby would have ended up dying because it was held under the arm and near the shoulder by the father, “he felt the baby slipping...he pulled back very hard”(2). The last tug would have either caused bodily harm, or was enough to kill the fragile child.
The father is bigger and stronger and the last tug on the infant might have been enough for him to get the baby out of the persistent mother's hands. Neither of the parents won the baby, because with both of them tugging and with the last words of the story being, “In