The Ceiling Sparknotes

I chose to write about The Ceiling. This story begins with the narrator attending his son’s birthday party and he remembers the day so well because it is the first day that he saw the object in the sky later referred to by the press as the Ceiling “The square was without blemish or flaw, no larger than a child’s tooth, and I could not tell whether it rested on the moon itself or hovered above it like a cloud.” (Thing’s that fall from the sky pg.103-104). The object continued to grow larger and larger in the sky as it got closer and closer. It hung over the people of the town like a black thunder cloud a constant reminder of what was to come but somehow people tried to continue on with their lives as if nothing was wrong. The narrator is so focused on the ceiling slowly crashing down on him he choices to ignore the struggles his wife is going though and as the distance shrinks between the ceiling and the town the distance increases between him and his wife who is so focused on their problems she fails to even really notice the ceiling at all.
I feel that this a perfect example of existentialism the wife choose to be unfaithful and watch her marriage fall apart and she tries to make herself feel better by saying things like “We’re not all that much alike, are