Cash 96

“It won’t balance. If you want it to tote and ride on a balance, we will have------”’

The quote begins with no quotations, but it does end with them, this shows that Cash was maybe in mid thought when he said this, or that he was saying something before in a previous chapter or conversation and this was the continued idea. This quote really describes and defines Cash and his characteristics. Cash is meticulous and requires everything to be perfect, all he ever thinks about in previous chapters is the casket he is building, and all that matters to him is that it is perfect. He keeps talking about balance and making the casket balanced, this shows that he is still obsessed with the perfection of the box and cannot think of anything else. Also, the sentence doesn’t really end, it leaves an open ending; this shows that what he wants to say is too hard to actually put in words, in his mind he wants to finish his thought, and he wants to speak about it, but in the end the notion is too much for him to handle so he lets it vanish. This quote also begins the chapter and ends it. Making this the beginning and the end shows that it is an important part of the situation, the emotion that Cash is feeling is really vital to his character and to the situation as a whole.