Between the Pool and the Gardenias

This is one of my favorite stories out of the book "Krik? Krak!" because it is different than most in that it includes some sort of a twist at the end.  In the beginning, I thought that the woman found a living baby on the side of the road and was going to keep it and raise it as her own.  It turned out in the end that the baby was actually dead and the woman kept it because it was the closest thing she could get to having her own child.  I think she took the baby because all her life she has wanted to have her own baby and she also wanted a lot more things in her life that she could not have.  When speaking of the house and property that she worked at she said, "I pretended that it was all mine." When she says this it shows how much she wants a better life with better things, which leads me to believe that is why she kept the baby.  She was so used to pretending that she had things in which she actually did not have, it was very simple for her to pretend she had her own child even though it wasn't actually alive.  Once the woman started talking about how the baby was starting to smell really badly is when it is made known that the baby is dead.  I feel as if her decision to bury the baby in the garden really set her up to get caught in the end since many people walk throughout the yard.  When the pool guy saw what she was doing there really was no way to explain her way out of it because the truth was too unbelievable.  I think the ending was ironic because all she wanted was to have her own child and when she finally had one in her mind, she would then be severely punished for "murdering the baby." The significance of the title "Between the Pool and the Gardenias" is that is where she was stuck waiting for her fate to be decided.