'Puppy' By George Saunders

What is love? Is everyone’s definition of love the same? Absolutely not, especially when it comes to a mother’s love. The story “puppy” by George Saunders is a story that tells two stories of vastly different loves. From the perspectives of two woman from very different backgrounds, that share one common thing: love. Marie is a mother of what would seem to be a well to do family. In attempts to distract her kids she buys them anything they want, and the father just says, “Ho-ho another animal.” She loves her kids so much that she is willing to rack up huge credit card bills, trying to keep them happy. Marie will stay awake late at night reading up on video games so that she can connect with her son. They are a happy family that share good memories and hearty laughs. A memory of a puppy is what brings the happy family to Callie’s home.
Callie’s home is a wreck, with signs of “white trash” spread from one end of their home to the other, not to mention the child chained to the tree in the backyard. Callie doesn’t feel that she lives the “white trash” life, that’s her life. She was raised in a home where looking through the holes in the back fence was fun to her. But in adulthood her fun is wrestling around with her husband after an argument, hoping for a good ole fashioned make up. That is where Callie is happy and to keep her and her family happy there are sacrifices that she knows she needs to