Tomatoes

Tomatoes factor into the stories “The Last Hour of the Bengal Tiger” and “Tomatoes and the Full Moon”. The tomatoes are spilled out onto the highway when the truck carrying them crashes and kills the driver. Some of the tomatoes are collected by the stepmother (of “Old Mrs. J.” and “The Little Dustman”) and donated to the hotel. Upon learning he has been eating an omelet with tomatoes from a fatal wreck, the narrator of “Tomatoes and the Full Moon” stops eating the omelet, sickened.