bbbb The story " My Mother's Hands " by Robert Fontaine is a story about love,

about how his parents have managed to keep loving each other, after such a long
time, in their seventies after a fifty years marriage. He was surprised that even
after such a long mariage, they still love each other deeply, regardless to the
conflict they have had recently.
The characters of the story are, the author's mother, an old woman that have
worked hard her whole life " My mother's hands have worked for me and others for
many, many years; washing, baking, scrubbing, digging in a garden...they are
gnarled and the veins are prominent and they are rough from years of work. ", the
author's father, a stubborn old man " I don't remember. He's just so stubborn. I
keep hoping he'll outgrow it. " and the author himself, a good child, caring about
his parents " I would visit my mother every day in their small apartment, for an
hour or so, and chat about baseball and hockey and prize fights on TV. ".
The rising action is when the narrator entered the parent's appartment as
usual to visit them, and found the two of them fighting in an arguement " They were
bickering and shouting about some obscure matter. "
The climax is when the old man, father of the author returned home, after a
couple of hours, with a bottle of hand lotion " At last, the door opened and my
father walked calmly in. He had a small package in his hands. ".
The falling action occurs when the old man gives the bottle of hand lotion to
his wife, author's mother " My father handed it to my mother and hung his head a
little and blushed. ".
The denouement is that the author leaves the apartment and allow the couple
to have their time " So I went and left them to make up and to smile and to be
alone. ".
To conclude, the author relised that even after a long marriage, it is
possible to surprise your partner and find something new about each other. I think
that the love between this two love birds in the story is something uniqe, I do not
belive that it is possible not to find out everything about your life partner.