A mother is spending a Sunday’s afternoon in the park with her son Larry and husband Morton.
In the beginning of the story you get the impression of an intelligent couple. The woman is reading a book and her husband Morton is reading the newspaper. P 97 l. 9 “How good this is, she thought, and almost smiled at her sense of well-being” She thinks it’s good to be out in the fresh air because she finds Morton city-pale because he is working so much at the university. He is a professor. It is all perfectly idyllic until a little boy starts throwing sand at Larry.
The mother is very formal and distant even when educating the other child; “We mustn’t throw sand ”. She is high class and a perfectionist who wants a romantic family and a perfect Sunday. According to p 98 l. 26-29, she is very angry with the man because he involves Morton in a situation so alien and distasteful to him. They are well educated and for them violence is distasteful; they are raised over that kind of primitive behavior. She also wants to stop it but for some reason she didn’t pull Morton down when he stood in front of the other man (p. 98 l.37). But when Morton turns his back and “gives up” and they have to drag Larry all the way out of the park, and they finally get outside, the mother seems extremely dissatisfied with Morton. On p. l. P 99 l. 10-15 she tells that is had to do with something more than this episode. There is something wrong in the relationship. Maybe that means, she wants deep inside a real man and is frustrated that Morton won’t fight for her and protect the family. On p. 99 l. 27-31 it’s like she compares Larry with Morton. He is his defenseless progeny, that she is now ashamed of. She is ashamed of Morton and that’s why she ends up humiliating him at the end by using the same term as the bully in the park p 99 l 45: You and who else?
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