The poison also references an earlier use of the word, when Susie described how rabbits sometimes accidentally eat poison and then bring it back to their dens, poisoning the entire rabbit family. The poison is a metaphor for the grief and guilt Jack feels over Susie’s death. 59Įach morning Jack feels as though poison seeps in when he remembers what happened to his daughter. The guilt on him, the hand of God pressing down on him saying, You were not there when your daughter needed you. He lay there under a heavy weight, But then only movement could save him, and he moved and he moved and he moved, no movement being enough to make up for it. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was as if poison seeped in. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. As the novel goes on, the picture is seen by many characters their interpretations, along with Susie’s new point-of-view in heaven, help Susie to understand the mystery of her mother.Įvery day he got up. Susie also finds the mysterious part of her mother appealing, hence the reason she took the picture, but she also does not completely understand it. Susie is not the only one who sees the oceans in her mother’s eyes Jack and Len also see them, and that is part of the reason they both find her so appealing. Susie uses a metaphor to compare her mother’s eyes to “oceans” like the ocean, her eyes seem deep and endless, and there is no knowing what is inside of them. The loss that Susie sees in her eyes is Abigail's grief over losing herself to the numerous roles listed she has so many roles to fill in her family life that she does not have time for the real Abigail. Susie’s mother is only her true self when she thinks no one is looking. My mother’s eyes were oceans, and inside them there was loss. It was the first one, the one taken of her unawares, the one captured before the click startled her into mother of the birthday girl, owner of the happy dog, wife to the loving man, and mother again to another girl and a cherished boy.
There was only one picture in which my mother was Abigail.
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