I feel it is very apparent that the grandmother in the story is recently divorced and after countless years of
marital and family life is making up for lost personal and individual time. The pact that Cofer is speaking about
is the vow of marriage and is naturally made only with men, disregarding issues presented in modern day
marriages. She is attempting to claim back her own territory. The territory she potentially lost during the time
she spent cooking, cleaning, working, and tending to her children and husband. Her personal space and
desire to live a single life is what hangs in the balance for her now. The simile of the sea represents the
manner in which the grandmother is taking back her life. The sea is a very unforgiving and relentless force
of nature that takes what it wants, when it want. And much like this, the grandmother is now living her
life the way she wants and doing whatever she wants. She is now a new person and with that is acting as a wave, rising and falling to the heights of its choosing. The sea will claim anything in its path that it wants.
The grandmother will now do the same.
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