Question

Why no one living in abandoned farmhouse

Answer 1

The narration largely describes inanimate objects around the farmhouse, which the narrator interprets to reflect the farmhouse's previous inhabitants. The narrator notes an object and then points out that it "says" something about the now gone family. For example, the shoes say the man was big, and the lilac wallpaper says there was a woman living in the house as well, and the sandbox and toys signal that a child used to live at the farmhouse.