THEME

=Theme/Tone = ==== **// The theme or tone in this short story consists of that of sadness and almost a sign of regret. She speaks of how her grandfather used to make "mint snowballs," keeping family heritage and living a happy life with her mother always enjoying herself. However, this was way back then, and she speaks of it with a sadness in her tone. The grandfather eventually sold it to someone, who never really used it, for one-hundred dollars. A regret has fallen upon him, as he wished he kept it for tradition. Her mother tried to replicate the recipe, but failed to do so as she lost her paper that she wrote down her progress in reforming the mint snowball. Then, near the end, she explains that her personality connects with the lost Mint Snowball. She says that she is out-of-step with her environment and just disjointed with the rest of the modern world. Weeping from the flush of cities, strip clubs, lost department stores, and basically wistful for something she has never tasted or seen. She hopes that maybe somehow, the moments of her grandfather could come back once more .//** ====