Coach (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Robison
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1970's
- Setting: Pennsylvania
- Principal Characters: Harry Noonan, Sherry, Daphne, Toby
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, Art or artists, Truthfulness and falsehood, Separation, Newspapers, High schools or high school students, Football, Coaching or coaches, Interviewing
- Locales: Pennsylvania
The Story
Harry Noonan dries breakfast dishes as he waits for a college reporter to arrive for an interview. He has been hired to coach the freshman football team. His wife, Sherry, asks him to rent a studio for her, where she can do her painting. Their daughter, Daphne, is looking in the refrigerator for something to eat. She wants to stay for the interview, but Coach says no. He remembers a fall night seven years earlier when he set Daphne on a football field during the half-time ceremonies; she was dressed in a football uniform with the number “1/2” on her back. Now,...
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