This, then, could be our last evening as an innocent, complete family; my last night with a woman I know almost everything about and want no more of. Soon we will be like strangers. No, we can never be that.
In this story, the narrator ,who is a father and a husband, is planning to leave this family the next morning. The thoughts of the narrator are clearly conflicted. In his thoughts, he is alternating between leaving his family and staying with his family. He is starting to love his son, but is that enough of a reason to stay in a loveless marriage to his wife? The narrator is conflicted about this plan and the story ends before he comes to his decision leaving the reader to wonder if he leaves or stays.