A Family Supper | Setting
The dominant setting is present-day Tokyo, Japan, in the Kamakura district, which was the seat of the Shogunate in the twelfth century. This historical detail might be important in that it contributes to the sense of Japanese tradition that the narrator’s parents represent and shapes the conflict of the story. It also connects to the narrator’s observation that his father is “proud of the pure samurai blood that ran in the family.”
The more immediate past of the story, however, is World War II, which the narrator immediately mentions in the context of the poisonous fish...
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