The Gun That Goes Off

The story tries hard to keep these things as questions. The aunt is so clearly trying to stage the encounter that she fears. I think it strongly, unilag militates towards a reading that the psychological trouble and complexity in this story is more the aunt's than it is bobby's. Cortazar thinks he's doing one thing in the story, and he's also revealing in all kinds of ways we can't know about his own preoccupations and drivenness and unconscious desires or fears.