A Family Supper | Critical Overview
Scholarship on Ishiguro often addresses his narrative techniques, which control information in such a way that the reader is unsure of the narrator’s reliability. In “A Family Supper,” for example, we must question the relationship between “the narrating son” and “the narrated son,” about whom the narrator in fact says very little. We must also interpret the story through what is not said as much as by what is, for silence is a prevailing motif within the dialogue. Other critics understand Ishiguro as a postcolonial writer, and he is often compared to Salman Rushdie and...
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