Throughout the short story “The Weather” by Deborah Willis there are many present themes, perhaps the most common and recurring one is how people can affect each other and their relationships, and how fast they can change between “passion and sweetness and sadness.” The ever changing relationships between the three main characters Edith, Braden, Rae and even Nina, the non-existent mother, are a constant drama throughout the story.
The changes between Edith and her father is ever-changing, in the beginning her hostility towards her father is increasingly present when Braden, her father recalls how she said to her mother after the storm “Even then, she used that cold tone. “He’s here, mom. He’s fine.”” This later in her life progresses to her …show more content…
Throughout the story there is a slight change in Edith’s attitude towards her father that is evident when he wakes up Edith and her friend Rae and takes them outside to the pasture to watch the sunrise and find the sickly or abandoned calves. Edith’s change in how she acts towards her father is shown when she is showing her friend how to lead the sick calves to the “loafing pens”. Braden is narrating during this particular moment when he mentions how “Edith looked at me then as if to say, “city girl.” I nodded and gave her a wink. It felt good to see my daughter like that, smiling.” But this shared moment between the two is short lived, for Braden makes the horrendous decision that will forever alter whatever relationship that was present between the two. In the dark of the night, when he believed Edith was asleep, Rae snuck into his room and climbed into his bed. The perspective of narrating changes to Edith, where she states “I heard her open the wrong door – his, not mine.” Through this statement it is evident the …show more content…
When Braden says “I talked about how hot it’d been that day, and how it’d cooled so suddenly the sweat on my shirt made me shiver” it is not just meaning how suddenly the storm had come and altered his day, but also how he thought his life was going good, he thought everything was okay, then suddenly the false paradise he was living in was ripped out from under him. Causing his whole life to change the day of that treacherous storm, the day his wife told him she hated her life with him, stuck on that measly farm. Later Braden says “the quiet was as hard to take as the storm’s noise” which shows that now that the storm is over, that his wife has left him and his daughter, that he is immeasurably unhappy the quiet that is left after the storm does not please him, but instead it bothers him. Whereas when Edith discusses her mother she pictures her mother “unzipping her high-heeled boots and shaking water from an umbrella” which shows that Nina is not being held back by “the storm” but instead she is shaking her old life off and moving on and creating a new life for herself. She is not letting her past life hold her back, she is moving on even though she has left behind a husband and daughter. There different ways of dealing with their separation is evident, just like the storm coming out of nowhere, Nina wanting to leave blindsided Braden and left him floundering, unsure of
The changes between Edith and her father is ever-changing, in the beginning her hostility towards her father is increasingly present when Braden, her father recalls how she said to her mother after the storm “Even then, she used that cold tone. “He’s here, mom. He’s fine.”” This later in her life progresses to her …show more content…
Throughout the story there is a slight change in Edith’s attitude towards her father that is evident when he wakes up Edith and her friend Rae and takes them outside to the pasture to watch the sunrise and find the sickly or abandoned calves. Edith’s change in how she acts towards her father is shown when she is showing her friend how to lead the sick calves to the “loafing pens”. Braden is narrating during this particular moment when he mentions how “Edith looked at me then as if to say, “city girl.” I nodded and gave her a wink. It felt good to see my daughter like that, smiling.” But this shared moment between the two is short lived, for Braden makes the horrendous decision that will forever alter whatever relationship that was present between the two. In the dark of the night, when he believed Edith was asleep, Rae snuck into his room and climbed into his bed. The perspective of narrating changes to Edith, where she states “I heard her open the wrong door – his, not mine.” Through this statement it is evident the …show more content…
When Braden says “I talked about how hot it’d been that day, and how it’d cooled so suddenly the sweat on my shirt made me shiver” it is not just meaning how suddenly the storm had come and altered his day, but also how he thought his life was going good, he thought everything was okay, then suddenly the false paradise he was living in was ripped out from under him. Causing his whole life to change the day of that treacherous storm, the day his wife told him she hated her life with him, stuck on that measly farm. Later Braden says “the quiet was as hard to take as the storm’s noise” which shows that now that the storm is over, that his wife has left him and his daughter, that he is immeasurably unhappy the quiet that is left after the storm does not please him, but instead it bothers him. Whereas when Edith discusses her mother she pictures her mother “unzipping her high-heeled boots and shaking water from an umbrella” which shows that Nina is not being held back by “the storm” but instead she is shaking her old life off and moving on and creating a new life for herself. She is not letting her past life hold her back, she is moving on even though she has left behind a husband and daughter. There different ways of dealing with their separation is evident, just like the storm coming out of nowhere, Nina wanting to leave blindsided Braden and left him floundering, unsure of