Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | Essays and Criticism
- History in Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
In the following essay, Henningfeld traces the critical history of Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant and explores the various psychological interpretations of the novel.
- Welty, Tyler, and Traveling Salesmen: The Wandering Hero Unhorsed
In the following excerpt, Manning argues that Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant takes the familiar figure of the wandering adventurer and portrays him as "irresponsible, vain, and self-centered."
- Family as Fate: The Novels of Anne Tyler
In the following excerpt, Gibson suggests that Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant contains Tyler's most complex treatment of the idea that one's fate may be determined by one's family situation.
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