Father and I (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Pär Lagerkvist
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Plot: Sketch
- Time of Work: 1901
- Setting: Sweden
- Principal Characters: The narrator, His father
- Genres: Short fiction, Sketch
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Children, Memory, Parents and children, Autobiography, Religion, God, Fathers, Railroads, Sweden or Swedish people
- Locales: Sweden
The Story
The short, recognizably autobiographical sketch appears merely to describe a Sunday walk in the country taken by a nine-year-old boy and his father and to be without complication in plot or narrative. This appearance is qualified, however, by complex perspective and a complexity of reactions detailed by the narrator as he recalls his first awareness of the life that he was to live.
The walk begins in bright afternoon sunshine, as the father takes his son by the hand. They wave good-bye to the mother, who returns to preparing the evening meal, and move off to...
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