I felt like this short story spent alot of time describing the lake house and then quickly and briefly jumped through to the end when the narrator went to college and piquette got married then died. Im still trying to grasp the whole idea of the ending when it says, "Piquette might have been the only one, after all, who had heard the crying of the loons." Im not sure if it is a negative connotation or just a way to finish off the story. I feel like the short story just leaves us hanging.
This story was very sad. I put myself in the shoes of the narrator. I couldn't imagine having a lake house that I shared time with my family and then losing someone I loved that created some of my fondest memories. The whole story is just an emotional let down. Two people die and it doesn't have the least bit of a happy ending. I have never understood if a house was on fire, why people can't get out but I guess it goes back to being educated. You learn those basics in school. And I've never been in that situation so its hard to tell. In some way however, this short story teaches you to cherish what you have because you never know when it could be gone.
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Yeah I felt the same like they over describe Piquette place too and no-where in the story that relates. You are right that jump from that lake to college was so confusing; I have to read that section twice to get my brain in it. Ending was trying to say that Piquette might have heard the crying because she and loons are relates in one-way-or-another because she was lonely like loons in her family. I think they don’t want to; they just want it to end in flames and mixed up with the earth. And moral of this story can’t be better then just enjoy what you have as u said.
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