The story represents how crummy custody cases can get in the midst of a miserable divorce. Both the husband and the wife long for the baby. Raymond Carver consistently uses the weather imagery to describe the feelings of his character(s), and how they feel during the divorce. The essay describes the narrative story written by Carver. There are two subtopic claims based on the overall topic. For example, one occurrence that is noticeable about the choices that Carver is making, is that both parents wish to have the baby. The effect of this choice is that both the husband and the wife try to take the baby from one another. The parents “play” tug-of-war with the baby as the rope. In other words, the parents, bent on only one of them having the
