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Why does the narrator throw
the umbrella away at the
end of the story?

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When her piano teacher gives her a beautiful white umbrella, she wishes her teacher were her mother. After a minor car accident, she realizes how much she loves her mother. She frees herself from guilt by throwing away the umbrella that had come to represent her misdirected feelings.
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