Omelay

To me, this story was quite confusing. In my opinion, what I took from it, was that we all try to portray ourselves to be happy people. But really, if we are being honest, there are many things that aren't perfect in our life and are happening. Most times, we tend to keep everything in until we just explode with emotions. I feel like the writer was trying to show us that if we keep everything in, no only will we never be happy, but those problems will never go away and we will always have "a kid in the basement." Our way of solving our problems is to forget about them, but not all things can just be forgotten. This was my opinion on the story, but I am interested to see how others interpreted it.