-Before he married, he was a "cheerful, kindly man" (Anderson 1). After he married, he became "habitually silent and discouraged" (1). The change was caused by disillusionment, especially with his failing chicken business.
-He feels that the egg symbolizes a cyclical confining force. He evidences this with the statement, "It has stayed there, I imagine, because I am the son of my father" (8). He is doomed to repeat the negative aspects of his parents' lives.
-The grotesques are the most obvious extension of his father's problems and flaws that will be transferred down to the narrator. He will be "deformed" by defects in his father, much as chicks are deformed by genetic defects in their mothers.
-The narrator believes that the egg, as a symbol of cyclical constraints, is inescapable.
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