What is going on in this story? What does Gramm get out of the relationship? What does the narrator get out of the relationship? Does the answer to that question have to do with his parents dying?
Does this sort of thing happen in real life?
And what does the title of the story mean?
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I think the implication, from the title and from the last line, is that the narrator has not grieved for his dead parents. He feels numb. And something about being hurt by this other kid makes him feel alive enough to feel grief.
My guess is that Gramm likes the narrator and part of him would like a romantic relationship with him. But he's been taught that it's wrong, that it would mean he was weak and girly, so he fights against it. I've seen gay male characters behave similarly in other works. The guy wants to have sex with the other man, but if the other man touches him, he punches him. At least, that's what I thought was happening here. I could be wrong.
Did you notice that the author used the name Graham in the first story, too? Just spelled differently. That's kind of odd, isn't it?
What about the chest he made? It seemed like that triggered the crying at the end. Is it because it was “about the size of a child's coffin?” At one point he says, “I pictured myself curled inside it.”
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