The Egg

Before he married, the narrator's father was a happy, outgoing, and positive person. After he married, he changed into a negative, discouraged, and angry person. The narrator's view and feelings about chickens are depressing. He thought they are never what they are expected and wanted to be. He recognized that most are ugly or they die. The narrator claimed to have had troubles being happy as a child because he didn't think he had a reason to be happy. I think that his parents were gloomy and not optimistic; he felt he had to act like them. The grotesques in the story were a symbol of his father because they were both trying and failing to entertain people. The grotesques were deformed, and the father was trying to do tricks with eggs; both were failures. The father decides to be a showman and entertain his guests, but he is not skilled enough to do this and is humiliated. The egg defeated the father when he said he has given up and lost all of his confidence