Change (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry Woiwode
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1979
- Setting: Chicago
- Principal Characters: The husband, His wife, Their eight-year-old daughter, Their infant son, Bob and Betty, “the boys”
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Art or artists
- Locales: Chicago, IL
The Story
Through recall, Larry Woiwode engages in a discursive examination of two households, particularly the home of the narrator, for a period of about six months, from April to fall.
A glowing doorknob, with its paint and grime removed in the spring, is a reminder to the narrator of the time and energy expended on it before it began to shine “like a miniature burnished sun.” With the door swung against the left end of the table at which he is now sitting and “walling” him in “somewhat on one open side,” the knob still shines “above the edge” of his...
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