“It’s impossible to have a baby in this cramped little tenement. We’ve outgrown this apartment, this whole neighbourhood.”
The current domicile is inconvenient for the family due to the upsetting noises springing from their neighbors’ houses. The cramping makes it grim for the baby to delight in tranquility. Environment is a defining aspect in the realization of tranquil motherhood.
“Stop bossing me around”
Miles makes this declaration when Nina maintains that Miles should take a box to the kitchen. The assertion alludes to the power dynamics between the couple. Nina holds that she has the right to assert her preference as to how the house should be organized. Comparatively, Miles thinks that it is disrespectful for Nina to order him as that he is mannish and she is female.
“Just take the baby upstairs…Her First word’s gonna be fuck if Nina keeps-”
Nina principally and effortlessly pronounces the word ‘ fucking’ in most of her declarations. Miles observes that it may dictate the word which the baby will master first. The baby may naturally learn the word from her mother due to its ubiquity in Nina’s statements.
