The Egg

1. I think the conflict is external, between the man and society. The father wants to do great things and has ambitions, but the society rejects his ideas and ambitions. For instance, the man that sat at the restaurant got up after his tricks and "stopped at the door, turned and laughed" (Anderson pg. 7).
2. I think the chickens represent all the obstacles that the family has to go through, and the eggs represent the ideas and ambitions that hatch from them. The eggs may be hatched, but are not good at staying up and are not perfect, and is why the eggs are sometimes not there or not good. On page two, Anderson writes, "to go squashed and dead back to their maker."
3. I think he is saying these things because he was bored and had a lot of time to think and ponder about life. The narrator wants to see the darker side of life because the lighter side is getting pretty boring.
4. One time, I wanted to go to the moon, but I couldn't fly so I couldn't go to the moon. This is an external conflict between my want to go to the moon and the inability to fly there.