Discussion Questions

1. The narrator doesn’t seem to like her husband , or his parents . There is an assortment of things she says2. Andy, Blip, and Suzie all seem happy with their lives, and fond of the narrator. Are they simply stupid? Why is it they seem so happy and the narrator is so unhappy? Who’s right in the way they live their life?3. Why did the narrator go through with a wedding that she didn’t want to have? Why have children when you are in an unhappy marriage? Who is the cause of the narrator and Andy’s unhappy marriage?4. How would this marriage/snow story go if told from the perspective of Andy?5. If Andy was wearing similarly sensible shoes in the car, would the narrator have asked him to go to the next car? Would Andy have agreed to go if asked? If the answer is yes, then why is the narrator mad at Andy?6. If the narrator fails to dig out the tailpipe, and Andy dies, will her life get happier in a year? Is she right in saying that “not doing anything isn’t wrong?”