After - Janie

After the story was over, I imagine that Laura would have a newfound confidence, and maybe goes to a school thats more suiting to her personal interests; studying something quiet in a small class size. I think Amanda would still be mostly the same; she didn't really change throughout the story. I don't think Tom would have ever gone back to his family, but that if he ever made money on a poem or short story that got published in a magazine or newspaper, I imagine he would have sent half of the money back home to Amanda and Laura. He wasn't really a bad guy, he just wanted to be free to be his own person and he as definitley tired of being smothered.