Outside the building, she started to walk west to Lexington to catch the bus. Between Third and Lexington, she reached into her coat pocket for her purse and found the sandwich half. She took it out and started to bring her arm down, to drop the sandwich into the street, but instead she put it back into her pocket. A few years before, it had taken her three days to dispose of the Easter chick she had found dead on the sawdust in the bottom of her wastebasket.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A character hesitates to discard a sandwich half, recalling a past reluctance to discard a dead chick.
- In plain terms
- She keeps the sandwich instead of throwing it.
- What can you take from it?
- Past habits influence present choices.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why keep the sandwich?
- What does the chick say?
Another view
It lacks explicit explanation.
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