A Drowning Incident

I'm not going to lie, this one confused me a little. Why McCarthy would take such innocence, the young boy or the puppy, and completely destroy them? The story starts as though it would not have a straight point. The beginnings reads very descriptively, and yet one does not realize the meaning of the story until the end. I may be completely off the wall by saying this, but I think McCarthy wants the readers to see that even the innocent become tainted. The puppy was innocent; it had done nothing to deserve death, after all it had only been born a few weeks before, yet someone, perverse in mind, destroyed the nature of that puppy. Puppy's represent good and gentle things, such as playfulness and obedience. The unnamed monster who murdered the puppy sought to obtain the opposite representation from the death of the puppy. In such a way, the unnamed characer influence the mind of a young boy, also relatively innocent at the beginning of the short story. The boy was neglected and hurt by the lack of love given to him from his parents. He younger sibling had been born, and he had been put on the "back burner." Now to get back to my original statement, this corpse of a puppy had stimulated an evil in the innocent mind of the boy. He thought to find the love that had not been given to him. He sought to destroy the constant coughing of his younger sister. He loathed that his parents chose her over himself, and with the images of death and disease fresh on his mind and his hands, he made up his mind to end her life. He place that disease and rotten corpse in his sister bed, to fix the only "problem" he had. The sad irony in this story is that with death and destruction of characters does not cease. First the puppy, then the baby girl, and with the life ending decision to harm his little sister, the boy's life is also destroyed (at least in the sense of never being the same). Again, I am probably completely off on this blog for this story, but this is the message I derived.