#1 Discuss the story's final lines. What is the "issue" that is "decided"?
"But he would not let go. He felt the baby slipping out of his hands and he pulled back very hard. In this manner, the issue was decided."
"Popular Mechanics" by Raymond Carver was definately strange. I did not expect the story to end the way it did. In the last few lines of the story, the husband and wife basically tear their baby apart. The "issue" that is "decided" is who will get the baby. The last few lines reveal that neither of them get the baby because the parents killed the baby by fighting over it. The issue was decided when the father "pulled back very hard." the last line implies that the baby was killed by the parents tugging back and forth on it like they were playing tug-of- war. I think it was a sad story of how divorce can destroy a family, and divorce is a sad reality that many people face in today's society.
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