The narrator suggests that the main reason she moved back to her childhood home to care for her mother was due to her feeling of —guilt.

"The Leap" is a brief tale of approximately an unnamed woman's mom, Anna, and the alternatives that framed her past. It is informed from the attitude of Anna's daughter, who lives together along with her growing older mom in New Hampshire and tries to keep in mind her thru testimonies approximately Anna's great existence as a younger woman.

In the tale, the narrator explains that she owes her lifestyle to her mom 3 times. The first is whilst her mom, a trapeze artist, stored herself in a coincidence at the circus. The 2d is whilst her mom met the narrator's father, a doctor, at a sanatorium whilst improving from the coincidence.