The Train OF Life

The train is a very strange story just as the others I have read in Carvers Cathedral, again I come to the conclusion that Cravers style is one of a kind and that he depicts humans as completely weird creatures. This short story starts with a creepy image of a women giving a punishment to  a guy that tried to steal from her by aiming a revolver to the guy and letting him know that what he did was wrong. Then she goes to a train station apparently very late at night because no trains are leaving and the place is desolated. then a women and an old man enter the station. The lady talks to Miss dent saying that she knows she is listening to the conversation she has had with the old man all along. She also tells Miss Dent that she maybe doesn't want to talk but that at some time something will occur to her and it would be too late. They keep taking the old man comes in with his cigarette lit at last and then the train comes and the story ends. I found a topic that makes me wonder of life in this story and it is what we really are here to do in life. What is our purpose? It is not completely connected to the story but this is what came to me after reading. Miss Dent passes through to events one simple and the other one aggressive in a short period of time and it doesn't seem to affect her. why do events like these seem to pass in our everyday life and most of them we just take for granted. Do they signify nothing? What are we supposed to do with our lives, which are full of events that are simple, strange, happy, creepy, intense, and unique. What do these events mean are we supposed to see something in them. Did we came here for a purpose and if yes what is it? those are some of the questions I got after reading because the girl seems to not care much of what happens in her life. In general our lives flow normally and we think they are normal but why dont we think that everything happens for a reason.