The Egg

1.) He was a simple man, and was a farmhand. he was happy with his life and didn't want to rise in the world. After marriage, he came much more ambitious and wanted to get up in the world. His wife's nature and desire for him and their son to do well in life spurs him on to become more ambitious.

2.) The narrator hates chicken and eggs. They are a symbol for hopelessness and how you can try really hard but not get what you want.

3.) They are used to try and entice and entertain the man in the cafe. He thinks that if he gets at least one young person interested in his grotesques, more will come and he (the dad) will be able to get money and become rich off of it.

4.) It means that the egg has triumphed in showing its own symbolism. It has succeeded in showing the hopelessness of never getting what you want no matter how hard  you try.