The Final Proof of Fate and Circumstance (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Lee K. Abbott
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Plot: Metafiction
- Time of Work: The 1960's to 1980's
- Setting: Texas
- Principal Characters: Daddy, Tyler, Nadine
- Genres: Short fiction, Metafiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Memory, Parents and children, Tradition, Marriage, West, U.S., Fathers, Storytelling, Accidents, Death or dying, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Texas
- Locales: Texas
The Story
Tyler is telling his wife, Nadine, a story that his father has told him many times before. Tyler passes his Daddy's stories on to Nadine, taking on the role of storyteller that Daddy has practiced for many years and that has become the basis of their father-son relationship.
Tyler starts by narrating one of Daddy's most compelling stories, in which Daddy killed a man in a tragic car accident when he was twenty-eight years old. What makes Tyler's rendition of the story so engaging is the quality of detail he occasionally adds to his father's story: “His car,...
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