'Mr. Lacey In Cynthia Rylant's Short Story Stray'

In the story “Stray” by Cynthia Rylant, Mr. Lacey appears to be unhappy because he seems bored, annoyed, and disappointed in his job, income, and maybe even his life. This foreshadows that he might be missing something in his life, but what could that be?

In the story, “Stray,” by Cynthia Rylant, Mr. Lacey appears to be unhappy because he seems bored, annoyed, and disappointed in his job, income, and maybe even his life. This foreshadows that he is missing something in his life, such as a source of entertainment like a pet or a new TV, or any other recreational item. In the beginning of the story Mr. lacey is appears bored with his job and maybe his life. Evidence that supports my claim is in paragraph nine, on the first page when the author

Lacey is not very cheerful. When most people when they get a day off of work, they do something fun. Mr. lacey Instead, wants to sit at a table and pick at his fingers with a knife. When he sees the dog he thinks that it would be a waste of time to do anything with it, so his thinking is that he should just send it to a pound and let the workers there to figure out what to do from there on out. The day Mr. Lacey drives out to the pound is the first day that the roads were clear enough to go out on and drive. When Mr. Lacey arrives at the pound he decided Even though he would be cutting it close with his budget to keep a dog, he still does because he starts to feel pity for the dog and decided that a place where they put ten dogs to a cage, and give it six days to live isn’t a very good place for an animal. He ends up bringing the dog back to his house and letting it stay upstairs, and he realizes that having a dog might be a good thing to have for a while, instead of being so bored he finally found the thing he was missing in his life. In the story “Stray” by Cynthia Rylant, Mr. Lacey appears to be unhappy because he seems bored, annoyed, and disappointed in his job, income, and maybe his life. This foreshadows that he is missing something in his life. It turns out he was, a new dog. He also learns a lesson, you should be open to a change of lifestyle. It turns out that at the