As Jaslyn tries to retrace and understand her mother’s brief life, she is met with an element of the extraordinary. The fact that the coyote is walking toward—rather than away from—the city seems to suggest the magnetic pull New York is capable of, and this magnetic pull reflects Jaslyn’s own inability to stay away from the place that defined her mother’s life. It is telling that when she hears the rifle, she does not see the coyote fall, much like how Marcia doesn’t see the culmination of the tightrope walker’s journey. This way, she can perhaps imagine a different ending.