Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Tyler
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: Baltimore, Maryland
- Principal Characters: Pearl Cody Tull, Cody Tull, Ezra Tull, Jenny Tull, Luke Tull, Beck Tull
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism, Family literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Children, Family or family life, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Marriage, 1940’s, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Guilt, Brothers and sisters, 1920’s, 1930’s, 1980’s, Fathers, Death or dying, Baltimore
- Locales: Baltimore, MD
Form and Content
The strands of the Tulls’ separate stories are woven together and developed through a somewhat complex narrative structure. Although, like William Faulkner in his novel As I Lay Dying (1930), Tyler tells the story through a series of narratives, the structure is not difficult to follow. In each chapter, the reader sees the events described with limited omniscience, as Tyler reveals the consciousness of one person at a time. Consciousness changes only at the beginning of each new chapter. Each separate chapter reveals that character’s individual...
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