My impressions after reading and analyzing this story are very contradictory. From the first read lines I was in a hurry to make a judgment about this story as a teenager story of love and relations in the family, the problem of misunderstanding. When I proceed to reading it further and when the main conflict started to develop, the story turned out to be a kind of a psychological thriller. Many ideas of this short story is hidden between lines and it is necessary to analyze it deeply and to reread it many times to catch the idea. I’d like to say that it is actually worth reading and rereading because under cold Joyce Oates’ style the great emotional and expressive load is hidden.