A Christmas Memory (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Truman Capote
- First Published: 1956
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1930's
- Setting: Unspecified, but probably Monroeville, Alabama
- Principal Characters: Buddy, His cousin
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Children, Memory, Friendship, 1930’s, Old age or elderly people, Christmas, Kites, Baking
- Locales: Alabama
The Story
The adult narrator of this story nostalgically remembers the last Christmas that he enjoyed as a seven-year-old boy with his “sixty-something” cousin, who called him Buddy in memory of a boy who had once been her best friend. Buddy lives with this cousin and other relatives in a spreading old house in a country town (which probably represents Monroeville, Alabama, where Truman Capote lived with his four unmarried adult cousins until he was about ten).
As they have done each year, Buddy and his favorite cousin inaugurate this Christmas season with a late...
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