Atdtda[4] 106.24 the boy she wanted, after all, to keep

[Michel]

Whatever the age of your kids, they will always stay your little babies:
"But he is our baby, Webb" (105.27), Mayva says.  But mother, father and 
son know that they've landed in an irrevocable situation.  So, when Kitt 
leaves at the station, he and Mayva do what they have to do, the 
superficial things: May's taking care of her son for the last time 
(106.7-11), and gives him a last compliment like you do to your kids 
(106.15-16)

But what she really wants to say, she cannot: " "I'll never see you 
again."  No she didn't say that." (106.22).  Just as Kit is "pretending 
not to understand..." (106.22)

This last section of chapter 9 is about struggling with the love for 
each other, for May leading to that eternal parental emotion in the last 
8 words of the section, for Webb the contemplating of a double loss (of 
his father, and of his son) on 105.31-39.  They will never see each 
other again, "not here on the desolate lee shore whose back country is 
death." (105.23-27)

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This concludes my reading of chapter 9.

Michel.




	

	
		
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