The short story Popular Mechanics by Raymond Carver is about a couple who are in the middle a separation. This break-up isn’t of the ordinary since there’s a child involved in this situation. Most would look at this story from a woman’s perspective. In the essay we are concentrating more from a male point of view. What started the argument is unknown to the reader as well as what happens in the story. The author leaves us to determine or make up our own ending to this excerpt. To begin with, this story revolves around a couple who are in the middle of a nasty break up. The story begins with the description of snow turning into dirty slush on a dusty night. This type of setting I believe suggest that something unscrupulous is happing or about to take place in the following story. The man of this relationship is in the room packing his belongings into a suitcase. The woman is staying in the doorway yelling, insulting things to the man as he pack his luggage. Unlike most men, this guy also wanted to take his child with him as he was leaving. This …show more content…
The couple was so wrapped up in the argument that they forgot about the child being there for a split second. When the wife looks upon a picture of the wall when she realized that her child was in the other room. The man told the woman that he was taking the child with him. This causes another disagreement between the mother and father. They begin to struggle as the father reached out for the child. The woman puts up a fight because of her mother instinct to protect her child. The two begin to have a tug of war with the child, with each adult pulling on the child as if the baby was a stuffed doll. The book ends with the two pulling away at the child and the child is slipping out each of their hands slowly. The ending leaves us wondering what happened next with the child and the