"He simply turned to his desk, pulled the crumpled yellow sheet from his pocket, and laid it down where it had been, smoothing it out; then he absently laid a pencil across it to weight it down. He shook his head wonderingly, and turned to walk toward the closet.
There he got out his topcoat and hat and, without waiting to put them on, opened the front door and stepped out, to go find his wife. He turned to pull the door closed and the warm air from the hall rushed through the narrow opening again. "
There's two hint in the text that the yellow sheet may fly out again. First, he didn't close the window. Second, he simply put a pencil on the yellow sheet. So when he opened the front door, it's very possible that the yellow sheet will fly out again. Because the pencil will not be heavy enough if the wind comes in.
I think there's another foreshadowing element in this passage. "He turned to pull the door close and the warm air from the hall rushed through the narrow opening again"(Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets). Here, the author basically tells us what will happen next--that the sheet of yellow paper he puts on his desk will fly out again--by repeating what has happened earlier in the story.
ReplyDeleteI think this quote did foreshadow that the yellow paper will fly out by telling us that there is the warm air. But in the first sentence, the author mentioned about the sheet was taken out from the pocket which it's crumpled. I think that it's hard for a crumple sheep of paper to fly away unless people flattern it.
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