The protagonist who was all her life mistreated and ignored by others, the first time someone helped her,
since the butcher "loaded her grain bag" that kindness guilted her and died. "It was a big haul for the woman. It was a big haul for the dogs now". Furthermore, the old woman, who was not that old, when she was alive she looked older than what she actually was, but when she died, it seemed as if death gave her youth, "the shoulders were so narrow and the body so slight that in death it looked like the body of some charming young girl", as if death gave her the peace that she didn't have when she was alive