Before moving What had been wanted was this always, this always to last, the talking softly on this porch, with the snake plant
in the garden in the southwest corner and the obstinate slip from Aunt Eppie's magnificent Michigan fern at the left side of the friendly door. Mama and Helen rocked slowly in their rocking chairs and looked at the late afternoon light on the lawn and at the wooden fence and at the poplar tree. These things might soon be theirs no longer. Those shafts and pools of light, the tree, and the fence might soon be viewed passively by different eyes. 1: what does the detailed description tell about the family
