Stony Double Mattress Analysis

I would like to write about the significance of the, "…double mattress on a brown wooden platform," (McCracken 27) or the marital bed of Sally and Amos from "Property." When I think about beds, I associate them with marriage and Stony's description of the bed as a double mattress instead of simply a mattress or bed made the association apparent to me. What caught me off guard was immediately after painting the picture of a bed for two he compared it to a horrifying scene, "It looked like the sort of thing you'd store a kidnapped teenage girl underneath." (McCracken 27) Stony's association of something that represents love, rest, and union with torture, camouflage, and vulnerability made it apparent that he no longer had the things the bed represented.
He could not sleep on the double mattress for even a single night, so he slept on the futon sofa. When I think about futons I think of a bed that people typically get when they first go to college and are going to be living in their first apartment or dorm. In these situations, people are typically out on their own for their first time and embarking in a new life, what it appears that Stony is doing now that he is here in America out on his own. The way in which the next line is phrased reassured me of the singleness of Stony’s life now, "… and went the next day to the nearby mall to buy his very own bed." (McCracken 33) The author could have just simply stated that Stony went to buy a bed, but the structure of, “his very own bed,” emphasized Stony being a party of