In "The Last Stop" Cable examines a modern day funeral home. In the essay he makes assumptions about what he thinks funeral homes should look like. One mistake was that these places would have gardens with wonderful, colorful plants, and that it would be out of the day to day life. Instead was he found was an old building, that looked like a church, in the center of town. Another key mistake was thinking that an undertaker was a dark, gloomy man. The man he met in the story was just another business owner trying to make money in his profession.
Cable's essay did a great job describing Goodbody Mortuaries. I thought that this place sounded much like the funeral homes that i've been to, with a welcome feeling, and soft-spoken people who are there to help. Also, Cable did a good job expressing his new understanding of the dead. This will help me write my paper because it teaches to properly explain how an experience has changed your view of something.
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