As you read lines 69 to 90, continue to cite textual evidence underline the unexpected events the narrator witnesses. What do you think is happening to the narrator's husband? What transformation(change) has taken place? What assumptions have you made about the character previously that has changed? Lines 70-90: “He looked away then and said something like, “Guess she just waked up
dreaming.” and passed it off that way. Or tried to. And so did I. And I got real mad with my baby when she kept on acting crazy scared of her own dad. But she couldn’t help it and I couldn’t change it. He kept away that whole day. Because he knew, I guess. It was just the beginning dark of the moon.
It was hot and close inside, and dark, and we’d all been asleep some while, when something woke me up. He wasn’t there beside me. I heard a little stir in the passage, when I listened. So I got up, because I could bear it no longer. I went out into the passage, and it was light there, hard sunlight coming in from the door. And I saw him standing just outside, in the tall grass by the entrance. His head was hanging. Presently he sat down, like he felt weary, and looked down at his feet. I held still, inside, and watched—I didn’t know what for.
And I saw what he saw. I saw the changing. In his feet, it was, first. They got long, each foot got longer, stretching out, the toes stretching out and the foot getting long, and fleshy, and white. And no hair on them.
The hair begun to come away all over his body. It was like his hair fried
away in the sunlight and was gone. He was white all over, then, like a
worm’s skin. And he turned his face. It was changing while I looked.