In David Lynch's early short film "The Alphabet," there is a scene where a large English letter "A" gives birth to a small "a" in a pool of blood. Later, the imagery of birth in "The Grandmother" emerges from the metamorphosis of plants. Lynch's obsession with the concepts of life and death leads to the presence of scenes depicting birth and death in almost every one of his films. Moreover, Lynch's portrayal of "birth" is always negative: dark, ugly, evil, hellish imagery; while "death" is described as bright, perfect, and akin to heaven.