The Sisterhood of Night

The main theme of the story is parent-child relationships, or more specifically parent-daughter relationships. We see how the parents in the town are so desperate to understand the strange actions of their young daughters that they might be driving them even further away. While searching for the reason behind the existence of the Sisterhood, the narrator realizes that maybe he is not meant to understand the secret world surrounding girls. In this problem we also …

…do is long for better times: "We think of the long years of childhood, the party frocks and lollipops, the shimmer of trembling bubbles in blue summer air." By listing these ordinary objects he creates the image of a perfect childhood, as if it were a dream. He longs for a time when the girls didn't have the need to form a secret sisterhood and when he didn't have to worry so much about them.