Bobbie Ann Mason used his wild imagination to symbolize the log cabin and a dust ruffle. Mason used the log cabin to symbolize their marriage. Also, he used the dust ruffle to symbolize Leroy and Normas poor attempt in hiding their problems.
At the beginning of the story, Normas mother, Mabel, gives Leroy and Norma a dust ruffle quilt to put on their bed. Leroys assures Mabel that the dust ruffle will be used, but to “ hide things under the bed,” (page 234). Usually, things are placed under beds to be not only out of sight but out of mind. The dust ruffle is used to hide boxes or crates, but silence is used to hide the problems in their marriage that have formed since the death of their son. The story ends by giving the setting, “the sky is
At the beginning of the story, Normas mother, Mabel, gives Leroy and Norma a dust ruffle quilt to put on their bed. Leroys assures Mabel that the dust ruffle will be used, but to “ hide things under the bed,” (page 234). Usually, things are placed under beds to be not only out of sight but out of mind. The dust ruffle is used to hide boxes or crates, but silence is used to hide the problems in their marriage that have formed since the death of their son. The story ends by giving the setting, “the sky is