t get out of heremust get air(39). Prior to this, Amys mental and emotional world was seemingly the only place for her to retreat from the physical control that her husband had exercised over her. Now that he is attempting to usurp even that part of her private being, she is forced to take the emotion out of the house and out of their relationship. The reader, however, is meant to see this as a universal constant when Amy makes the comment I dont know rightly whether any man can(40), that is ,talk about a child that he has lost. This translates the space of the separation within their relationship to the rest of the world, the eternal gap between women and the mans ability to understand their source and content of emotional expression. Now the roles are reversed again, him standing at the top of the stairs, asking Amy dont go to someone else this time. Listen to me. I wont come down the stairs(41-42). While entering Amys world of emotion here, the man seems willing to have her listen to him speak of his own child hes lost; however, when Amy moves away to escape the control he has on her, he loses sight of the proper emotion, becomes angry and says that Ill come down to you(72). His anger and confusion at Amys seemingly harsh and cold treatment of him is literally pushing Amy out of their home and their collective emotional space. Her fingers moved the latch for all reply(47) indicates that her husbands inability to properly express his grief has so consumed the rest of their relationship, that they have reached a pivotal point-if she opens the latch, he knows that there is no hope that they will ever be able the reconcile, and, not only that, that he will lose control over her emotional as well as physical space that he has, until now, been master over. He makes a final plea, asking her to Let me into your grief . Im not so much Unlike other folks as your standing there Apart would make me out(63-64). This becomes the...
