Ultimately Henry and Catherine have a baby. While in the hospital, a nurse tells Henry, "Didn't you know?" "No." "He wasn't alive." "He was dead?"... "Yes. It's such a shame. He was such a fine big boy. I thought you knew" ( 279). As he begins to initiate the devastating truth, he later tells himself, "I had no religion but I knew he ought to have been baptized" (279). Realizing he had no religion to follow, he wanted his baby to start off on the right foot; also realizing the baby could surpass his philosophy. Furthermore, his masculinity decreases, when he is informed about Catherine's chancy health status. Anticipating, Henry says to himself, "Everything was gone inside of me. I did not think. I could not think. I knew she was going to
