"The God of Small Things" ends with a vivid, powerful description of one of many amorous encounters between Ammu and Velutha. I guess this is why the book "started in the end and ended in the middle". AT the very end, she recalls when Margaret Kochamma asked if "Indians do that to each other, too" referencing the 'sniffing' that she thought Indian men and women did. Though this previously insulted Ammu, at the end of the book, she finds it funny because she thinks, "Yes, Margaret, we do it to each other, too." (Roy 321).

My impressions of this book and what I thought would happen and how things really did turn out changed constantly. I originally thought that Sophie's death would be an adhesive for the troubled crumbling family and that it would reunite them over the loss of what was most precious to all of them. Unfortunately, it only made things worse.

It says that for thirteen more nights after the described one "they stuck to the small things". (Roy 320). In their own little world of Small Things, Ammu and Velutha could be who they wanted to be and do what they wanted to do. But when Sophie is introduced into the world of Small Things, everything goes horribly wrong, and it is a warning about what happens when these two worlds coincide. Pappachi's moth was a constant reminder of what was really going on.