The Reasons for Elevators:

The Reasons for Elevators:

   The introduction plays a part of doing a description of the duties of elevators specifically in a hospital. It gives the elevator and an umbrella also the hospital a non-living object a sense of being alive especially when the author ends the paragraph with the statement "having outlived the child scheduled to be born that day"
  As we find out that in the story that she has to give birth to a still born baby it actually cast a whole new emotion played out. It went from questioning the journey in the elevator to the panic and uprising of emotions a mother-to-be may feel with finding out bad news. When the mother in the story made the comment "that her body will no be a coffin" the picture of that came quickly in my head of that.
I feel as if the mother who has given birth to the stillborn baby, very own child is telling the story. The reason why I came up with that thought is because of how the person says she looks at them as she wont forgive them for living.
 This story gives off the feeling of a fight between a mother and daughter. The untold stories of their inner thoughts. The mother still suffering from her thoughts of losing her child and suffering from "the potential child" syndrome and not tending to the need of her living child. Also the thoughts of a daughter who is suffering from the thought of having to compete with her mothers attention from that unborn child. I feel the tug and the tension in the daughters narrating between her mothers depression and reliving this story every anniversary of the "un-birthday" of that child" which can cause awkward elevator rides.