The last scene in this short story after Fortune has killed his own granddaughter, Mary Fortune Pitts, stuck out to me. Fortune throughout the story must always be in control of Mary Fortune and everything around him. His sense of control and constant anger all foreshadow his death as he is an old man with a heart condition. In the beginning of the story, Fortune was always in control from the house, to how Mary Fortune acted. The last scene of him “on his back” surrounded by nature and no one to help allude to the sinister consequences of thinking you can control human nature. Mary fortune was bound to grow up and become an individual person with her own ideas and mannerism aside from her grandfather. Because Fortune could not accept this and saw her opinion about the “lawn” as different from his, he saw himself quickly losing control over the person that had grounded him for so many years. Just as he thought his heart would never give out and he could keep on fighting with Mary Fortune, he kills the spitting image of himself and is left alone with only nature.