The story explains the sustainability of life, how the negativity of a relationship can help you relate to the smallest symbolic things. The lesson about the sustainability of life goes beyond just the life of Pisces. It was more about the relationship between the parents. The owner of the fish was small and did not take care of the fish, forcing the mother to take care of him, remembering the fish from his childhood; the mother also remembers how her father dumped her childhood fish into a Michigan river. The child's mother continued to behave well even after her husband's infidelity. He would compare it to his parents' relationship. In a way, the negativity of both relationships made her compare her life to the fish in the aquarium. The mother “… was amazed that life was sustainable even in the most abominable conditions.” She felt that the fish was most likely going through the same thing she was going through with her husband. After seeing Fish's tank dirty, the little boy told his mother and thought the fish was dead, he didn't know that the fish was not dead and that his mother had cleaned the tank and moved it to the living room after signing the final documents of her divorce and say goodbye to her ex-husband. Finally everyone brought the fish “…where with a quiet applause of congratulations they will give the Fish a new home, right next to the television”. It kind of explained Fish's new life in a positive way and his life will be the same. Overall the story compares the life of man to that of fish, both very different, but in a more similar way than you might imagine. The topic of adultery is harsh and the way people take it can be calm or crazy. In my opinion she took the divorce in stride and it brought a certain type of love back into her life. It is bazaar to think that the situation of a fish gave the
tags