Carver's "Boxes": Something Is Not Right

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and get it over with" (p. 413). I do not
think the son believes she really wants to die but she puts the idea of her
dying in his subconscious. There is a gap at that point that is up to the
reader to figure out. The gap is widened farther in that same scene. The son
remembers thinking about a man working on a power line. The man leaned out
supported only by a safety belt and the son thought about if the man fell. The
son is still on the phone with his mother: "I didn't have any idea what I was
going to say next. I had to say something. But I was filled with unworthy
feelings, thoughts no son should admit to. 'You're my mother,' I said finally.
'What can I do to help?'" (p. 413). What were these thoughts? Why doesn't the
narrator tell us? The son cannot help being affected by these powerful words of
his mother. This gap in the story is important because the son is thinking
about how that man working on the pole could easily die if his safety belt does
not hold. At ...

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