Communist (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Ford
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: 1961
- Setting: Near Great Falls, Montana
- Principal Characters: Les, Aileen, Glen Baxter
- Genres: Realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Teenagers, Death or dying, Waiters or waitresses, Hunting or hunters, Labor unions, Geese
- Locales: Great Falls, MT
The Story
Les, the forty-one-year-old narrator, looks back to 1961, when he was sixteen and still living with his mother in a house left by his late father. His mother, Aileen, was a part-time waitress in the nearby town of Great Falls, where she met Glen Baxter, a self-proclaimed labor organizer and communist who had seen a side of the world that Les could then only imagine. A transplanted Westerner, Baxter was a drifter who “stayed out of work winters and in the bars drinking with women like my mother, who had work and some money”—a common way of life in Montana. All of...
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