She ends up in a ditch along with her son and daughter-in-law, "They all sat down in the ditch, except the children" (1047), which that suggests that the Grandmother is in a spiritual rut even if it is unknown to her. ... She realizes this near the end which is represented when she sinks further into the ditch "feeling so dizzy that she sank down in the ditch with her legs twisted under her" (1052). ...