The narrator starts by telling us that he is renting out a small home in the woods where a bunch of hunters kill deer all day long. He mentions to us a little about what he is going through at this moment. His wife has left him for another man and sold their car before leaving. He is explaining to us that he is very alone in this small house and wants to leave for Florida. A detail in the story that we later find out is important is that he keeps his ticket to Florida in his wallet. He suddenly gets a knock on the door, from lady hunters. He had a very skinny wife but weirdly talks about how fat these two hunters are. He seems to like the fat more and more as the time they spend together goes on. He states that it makesthe home feel full and makes him feel good.
I think that the narrator felt sad and depressed during his time alone in his home. But his emotions change throughout the story because when the hunters showed up he felt good and happy they filled the empty space. This narrator is telling us that he feels uncomfortable with empty space and this comes with being sad or depressed. Like the expression people use when they are sad “I feel empty inside”. This narrator has something missing in his life and I don’t think he knows what that thing is. When the women were there that space was filled. I think this is why he spent so much time talking about them being so fat. But I still don’t think the women are the piece that he needs to fill this void. Honestly, I would say he never finds it. We find out that his wife left him due to him spending his money on his dream. He lost a job, his wife, the nice ladies in his home, and lastly in the end his one last escape from his bad world, his tickets.
It is really weird how Bonnie takes the narrator to the backroom for a bit and Phyllis supposedly tightens up his home. I think that Bonnie was a distraction for Phyllis to take his money and his tickets from his wallet. The breaking of the cup was a way for her to hide the fact she was digging in his wallet and not actually doing the dishes. Then as soon as they are done in the backroom Phyllis and Bonnie are ready to leave even after he asks them to stay for dinner. This makes this assumption seem true. Then once they leave he decides to get ready to hit the road to Florida and looks for his wallet to only find his money and tickets gone. I assume that these women had planned to rob him from the beginning. That they didn’t have husbands across the line because when asked that question they seemed worried to answer.