1. The narrator's father was a cheerful and kindly man before he was married. After they married, he became very ambitious and he had a passion for getting up in the world. He also became more and more discouraged with who he was.
2. The narrator feels bad and pities chickens. He views them as helpless and abused creatures. He uses words like "hideously", "naked", and "diseases" to describe the chickens.
3. The narrator claims to have had trouble being happy for many reasons. He talks about how, as a child, his mother and father struggled to make a chicken farm, so they decided to move to Ohio and make a restaurant. We are to suppose that he does not want to be optimistic.
4. The role that the father's collection of "grotesques" plays in the story is to be a symbol of his family problems. All of the chickens that he collects have some sort of mutation or defect, which shows a connection to his life with his family growing up. He had a bad childhood and his family struggled to be successful, which is how it is connected to his collection of "grotesques".
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