Summary
The excerpt was basically about monsters, but not the literal thing. Monsters, based on how the mother tried to explain it, were problems in life. Her child was getting worried of the lurking monster beneath the bed, even though the mother knows that there is not really any monster. She had this dilemma whether she would tell her son that there is not really any monster beneath the bed or she would just let him discover it all by himself, much like how a child would discover that Santa Claus is not anywhere close to real when he grows up. ...