off, having already accepted the decision, and says; “Okay, it's important to me too. Grandma used to say, 'Always look after your own blood'...”(MacLeod 204) this shows that they all respect the wishes of family members, however they might justify it to themselves.
The aforementioned scene of the narrator’s grandmother weeping at the wasted tomatoes is also used to foreshadow the cliched theme of “be thankful for what you have” or as Grandma says, “Waste not, want not”(MacLeod 38) as, in the following…
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