Midnight Mass, like a Catholic often does on Christmas Eve?
Not the same weeping at all.. If you've ever gone though a first Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthday, or any other significant day for the first time without someone really close, immediate family, child, husband, wife, parent, brother, sister, extremely close friend.. You'd understand what the weeping is all about. To me, that is the kind of pain Harry is feeling.. Molly is trying to ease the pain in one material way she can, paying the bills, note she also told Harry that he brought a lot of healing himself in the aftermath.. I also think the meaning of Kringle's gift is profound... I also doubt that he needs Michael on any direct line to tell him about his coffee conversation with Harry. To me
this short story is about context, with all the loss and pain, Harry is trying to carry on, because the world carries on.. His mom gave her life when he was born, that had to have brought great pain to Malcolm, but he put it aside to show love for his son and vice versa though a coffee mug lovingly decorated by a young son barely able to print and to that son with the coffee milk his dad made for him.. The mirror of that is Harry struggling to put together a red bike for his daughter, he could have bought it ready made, but his struggle screams his love to her though his pain.
