On "The Accident"

The theory of this poem is that the woman’s husband is cheating on her with the neighbor. He begins to get nervous cooking eggs with the neighbor around when his wife is also around. His wife mentions that when he usually cooks eggs, he shows off, but with the neighbor there, he shakes and breaks the egg with two hands to be careful.


Dear Zak t06,

Your comment wasn’t really a theory but basically you just summarized the poem. I do agree with you however that the mother was speechless, but not about the son if it even was her son. I believe that the whole story about the son was made up because the husband is cheating on his wife with the neighbor. The story was just a cover up. The husband was nervous, because he didn’t want the wife finding out.