The whole story evolves with pumpkins. At the beginning of the story we see there is a description of pumpkin with Alison and at the end again there is a description of pumpkin but with Clark and the whole story is stuck with gutting and carving of pumpkins. But it’s not merely a description of pumpkins; it has a deep symbolic meaning in the story. These faces are important for our understanding of the story. We can see how different Clark’s pumpkins are. Aggressive, astonished and serene, they tell us about the stages, the person goes through when loosing dear people. He knows that he is going to lose his wife Alison. The writer artistically presented this by the following line-“His four pumpkins were expressive and artful. Their carved features were suited to the sizes of the pumpkins.” But Alison’s carved pumpkins are less artful than that of Clark. Allison made two smiling and two sad faces. This reminds us that grief and happiness are two parts of our life and nobody can escape them -”two turned up and two turned down”.