1. His father was a very simple man at first, and he did not really want for anything. He was a farmhand before he married his wife, who was a very ambitious teacher who had him undergo various changed so that he wanted more in the world, wanted to get further in the world.
2. The narrator hates chickens and eggs. Maybe not hates; he thinks of them as the source of displeasure in his life. The whole chicken and egg thing goes back to the fact that they symbolize how the family could not manage to get anywhere in life like his parents wanted. They put so much effort in the chicks only for them to die.
3. The grotesques are used to try to entice his customers to come into the store, so that they could see the gross little failures.
4. The egg brought about his failure; every time he tried to talk to the customer, her talked about eggs. This egg symbolized how difficult it was for him to actually succeed.
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