For example, at the beginning of the story there is a line that says, “Early that day the weather turned and the snow was melting into dirty water.” This can be a possible first encounter with the obvious end of the couple relationship. The color with is often related to innocence and purity like the beginning of a new love; everything is perfect, and it provides the idea that nothing can ever go wrong with it, but in some other places the color white is related to sadness like the end of something. It could be it is just coincidence the use of this …show more content…
While his father was packing a picture of the baby was spotted by the mother next the suitcase. This was the first sighting of the baby, and it could be just ignored due to the argument. Then, The text says, “He reached across the stove and tightened his hands on the baby,” so now that the story is approaching the climax the baby appears again. He has been the center of attention, and possibly the true protagonist in the story. At the end, what happened to the baby is completely ignored. The parents were pulling the baby back and forth, each parent was trying to get baby. Then the text says, “In this manner, the issue was decided,” does this means they pull so hard they ended up dismember their own child? Therefore, we can conclude the baby is the protagonist. The parents can be foils since they have opposite views of who should keep the baby, and also antagonist because they possibly murdered a