As I can see from the criticism, Frost invented the shape of this tale, invented all the characters, suggestions, relationships, and possibilities. He based it on an actual event, but he invented the truth that he presents in the poem. Everything is what it necessarily is, from the saw to the narrator to the reader. Everyone has choices, but makes the choices inside his or her range of sensibility. The saw has to eat what is offered; the boy must both work hard and look up occasionally; the narrator must tell what happens even if he knows no reason for it; the narrator suggests unreliable accounts about the boy’s thought; Frost induces readers in a struggle to reunite their thoughts. All the implicit questions of "Out, Out-" stem from this
