The Push: Mother. Daughter. Angel. Monster?

For the next two weeks, Blythe can think of nothing but Elijah’s death. She even visits the pediatric intensive care ward at the hospital, a McDonald’s happy meal in her hand to make people think her child is a patient there.

As a child, Blythe knocks on the Ellingtons’ door to play with their boys, Thomas and Daniel. Mr. Ellington answers and says the boys are at their aunts and Mrs. Ellington is sick. Upstairs, Mrs. Ellington tells Blythe that she is resting after suffering a miscarriage.

Three months after Elijah’s accident, the Connors move from their apartment into a three-bedroom home. Blythe says, “I think we’ll be happy here,” to which Fox replies, “I thought we always were” (112).