Recognizing that her “smiling marriage” was in shambles (121), Y grabs a glass paperweight and, without warning, chucks it at the French window, which “shatters into a million pieces” with the “full trompe l’oeil moon dispers[ing] into a million fragments,” (124). Acknowledging that the window symbolizes their marriage’s longevity, the fact that Z shattered it foreshadows the destruction of her marriage in the way that the window was smashed. The ploce of “million,” therefore, reinforces the irreconcilability of the divisions between the two, while the “full trompe l’oeil” suggests the marriage was a certain type of lie: an illusion. Recognizing that Roddy’s piece reflects the reality he observed, as both Gavin and Bev understood, the titular image of a “trompe l’oeil” extends to their marriage, too. Despite the foreshadowing, whether or not Bev chose to shatter the window of her marriage, figuratively or literally, remains
Recognizing that her “smiling marriage” was in shambles (121), Y grabs a glass paperweight and, without warning, chucks it at the French window, which “shatters into a million pieces” with the “full trompe l’oeil moon dispers[ing] into a million fragments,” (124). Acknowledging that the window symbolizes their marriage’s longevity, the fact that Z shattered it foreshadows the destruction of her marriage in the way that the window was smashed. The ploce of “million,” therefore, reinforces the irreconcilability of the divisions between the two, while the “full trompe l’oeil” suggests the marriage was a certain type of lie: an illusion. Recognizing that Roddy’s piece reflects the reality he observed, as both Gavin and Bev understood, the titular image of a “trompe l’oeil” extends to their marriage, too. Despite the foreshadowing, whether or not Bev chose to shatter the window of her marriage, figuratively or literally, remains