After reading this tale, readers can interpret that wherever there is darkness, no life can emerge from it. Carver's use of the kitchen as a place without light was described as the couple's struggle consisting of pulling the baby until it was torn to pieces. The theme develops lessons that modern families are avoiding correct ethics and values ​​in today's society. The darkness that was filling in that house expresses that the family has no moral values ​​to properly care for the child. For this reason, no true light can present itself in this dark environment. The tone of the story is angry, aggressive and tense because the father is trying to leave the mother with the son. The tone of the story was established in the first paragraph of “Popular Mechanics,” when the woman enters and shouts at the man, “Son of a bitch! I'm so happy you're leaving!” (Carver 123). Another scene that readers imagined is when the man was ready and prepared to leave and the woman did not allow him to take the child with him, which resulted in a physical attack