Want and how it affects one's child

The short, and blunt-ness of "Popular Mechanics" helps illustrate the point that I think Raymond Carver was trying to make through his narrative. The lack of quotations kind of causes the reader to rush through the piece and in a way the characters. If the women and man had just slowed down I don't think that they would of had a literal tug of war with their child. They just got so caught up with their moment that they didn't have time to think. They only had time to think of the stuff they wanted: clothes, the will to leave...half of a child. I kind of wish I knew what the couple was fighting about but it's not overly important. All that matters is the "want" these two have for their things. This want drives them to fight and scream and to fight and scream over their child. This want drove them to rush through their story, not stopping for quotations in their dialogue or indentations in their paragraphs.