The Day the Flowers Came (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: David Madden
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1960's
- Setting: Rolling Hills Homes, an upper-middle-class subdivision in an unnamed city
- Principal Characters: Jay D. “J. D.” Hindle, Carolyn Hindle, Bill Henderson
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Emotions, Death or dying, Success or failure, Materialism, Isolation
- Locales: United States
The Story
After a night of solitary, heavy drinking, the protagonist, J. D. Hindle, wakes up on the couch in the living room of his house in a subdivision called Rolling Hills Homes. He has trouble getting his bearings. There are two glasses next to the empty bottle of Jack Daniel's on the coffee table, but J. D. remembers being alone. He seems to have fallen asleep reading True magazine. The voices of a man and woman on television, actors in a situation comedy, at first seem to be talking to him. The sunlight coming through the window hurts his eyes, and J. D. pulls the...
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