Salt Garden

Short Story's Essay In the short story, The Salt Garden, written by Atwood, Alma has a realization that the balance of power in her relationship with Theo and Mort can not last forever. There are many instances of this loss of this power balance throughout the story. In about the middle of this story, the narrator revels to the readers that both Theo and Mort possessed their homes and claimed them as property, much the …

…balance of power is transferred from the bikers to the narrator once the bikers are near death. At this point the author, Valgardson, relieves to the readers that once the balance of power is restored, it is more than possible to unbalance it again into the other direction, turning the tables on the situation, thus creating another power struggle to be resolved. Valgardson is simply paraphrasing the point that the presents of balance can't last.