08/26/07
The Piano
26. The Window
The girl presses her nose against the window. When her mother asks her what she's doing, she answers that it's what she used to do, press her nose against the cold window to watch the snow outside.
Her mother chuckles and tells her gently that it doesn't snow in the tropical place they live. The little girl replies that she used to do it in that other place, the cold one, the one where it snowed all the time.
The mother looks at her daughter quizzically and shrugs, attributing it to the fertile imagination of a child.
The little girl presses her nose against the window again and, closing her eyes, visualizes a lawn, all covered in white.
In the background, her brother is playing Tchaikovsky.