The first thing that I noticed about the story “Night Women” was that the woman’s son was wearing his Sunday clothes to bed. That struck me as strange because I know that when I was little, I never wore my nice clothes to sleep because my mother would scold me for getting them wrinkled. So for her to allow him to wear his Sunday clothes to bed means that there’s either a special occasion, or a special reason. Later in the story you find out that she tells her son that “we are expecting a sweet angel, and where angels tread the hosts must be as beautiful as floating hibiscus”. This put everything together for me, that she hides her line of work from her son by saying that the men visiting at night are only angels passing through, but she also worries about him catching her in the act. She had already prepared a lie, just in case he should wake up during one of her late night visits, “I will tell him that his father has come, that an angel brought him back from heaven for a little while.” I liked how all of her thoughts returned to her son, and how she wishes she has a better life for him, and that she wishes that they didn’t live ‘in a place where nothing lasts’.
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