"And it was true that from that day on the cat slept in the little boy's bed and kept to the garden, never risking a try at breaching security." (page 236)
3. To what extent does the story explore the motives for the behavior of the wife and husband, the husband's mother, the servants, and the people who surround the suburb and the house? what motives can you infer for these people? What ironies do they display in their actions.
Throughout the story, the motives of the characters were not real emphasized, or I didn't notice them at least. In this story, there are so many dangers in the world that the family lives entirely in fear. The parents and everyone in the neighborhood build walls and fences around their homes out of fear. The increased security does not add anything to the neighborhood but just makes them all live in fear of what may happen. However, in adding safety measures, they create more problems. They still had fear despite the safety measures taken. Also, bad things happen despite their precautions towards their environment in which they live. In this mere fact, there is irony. Because they lived in fear, they created a danger to their child.
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