Good Beginnings

My favorite part, and also the part that spoke to me the most, happened on the first page of the story: "Nobody had ever tried to stop me in June as long as I could remember, and when you are nine years old, what you remember seems forever; for you remember everything and everything is important and stands bigs and full and fills up Time and is so solid that you can walk around and around it like a tree and look at it. You are aware that times passes, that there is a movement in time, but that is not what Time is. Time is not a movement, a flowing, a wind then, but is, rather, a kind of climate in which things are, and when a thing happens it begins to live and keeps on living and stands solid in Time like the tree that you can walk around (Warren, 63)." I related to young Seth, especially in terms of his confidence in his knowledge and how he saw manners as the law.  And so the story began with a strong start.  I loved the narration of the older Seth, clearly recanting his past in this novelette/short story.  The narrative was colloquial and rich in description while relating to the reader. The story contained such great dialect which accurately depicts a small southern town... which made it that more surprising when the story reached its conclusion... Maybe I missed the point, but what was the point of ending the story so abruptly? 

A better question for the class: How does the conclusion actually conclude the story? Does it?