The writer is talking about the depressing news about her mother's death and calling the Social Security Office to info them them that her mother has died and asking them benefits that if she is entitled for death compensation. The writer never made her thesis explicitly because death can be unpredictable because the title of the story "My mother never worked" shows that implication that her mother never worked and her daughter is asking the Social Security Office. As stated with the title that her mom only received only her husband's widow benefits but she isn't entitled for her death
