How do the final two lines of the Moore's story "There are the notes. Now where are the money" change our challenge reading of the story? Considering the events in "People" parallel that in Moore's...

People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babblings in Peed Onk by Lorrie Moore In this short story, a proudly countercultural mother learns that her baby has a malignant tumor. She is staggered to discover, abruptly and horribly, that disaster and uncertainty can strike out of nowhere. The mother, who is a writer, must ponder her helplessness before her unknown fate. She must learn how she is to protect her child, despite all that she is not given to know. As she and her husband see their son from diagnosis, to surgery, to discharge from the hospital, she is also forced to confront newly-revealed similarities between herself and “people like that”—others she had always considered very different. After the mother and the husband learn that their baby has cancer, the mother tries to bargain with an unseen power for a guarantee for her child. An unbeliever, she imagines herself bargaining with the manager of a department store. In a moment of insight, she imagines the manager telling her that “What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future.” What’s more, “life’s efforts” cannot produce stories if there it is no mystery as to how those efforts will turn out. The mother therefore realizes that the vulnerability with which she is struggling is not only the source of her humanity, but of her art as well. While in the Pediatric Oncology Ward (“Peed Onk”), the mother observes among the other parents a “consuming and unquestionable obligation meeting illness move for move in a giant even-steven game of chess.” She listens as these parents discuss whether this is courage. One father says it isn’t, because “courage requires options,” but another mother points out that there is always the option of giving up. At the end of the story the mother is offered a choice of therapies for her child. Her husband is inclined toward the better-known and more aggressive choice, but she insists upon the experimental (less-known) and more passive...