Coates work was like every short story. full of detail and open endings. Her work in this chapter was quite a masterpiece in itself really because her details made the context of the narrator clear to understand the story. The only issue is the ending when the narrator was conscious that he didn’t want to die and escaped death but when his master (half brother) was drowning its like he let him drown and then drowned or killed himself as well, to be with his family. Did he kill himself to see his mother again? Is the mother even dead or was just sold to another person and he thinks she’s dead? What does the shell necklace mean?