First Love and Other Sorrows (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Aaron Roy Weintraub
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Short story
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Husbands, Teenagers, Love or romance, Greed, Ambition, Discoveries
- Locales: St. Louis, MO
The title story of First Love and Other Sorrows takes place in the springtime when its narrator is sixteen years old and is dealing with a budding sexuality. He lives with his adoptive mother and his twenty-two-year-old sister, who seems as unhappy with her looks as the narrator is with his. She complains that her face is too round and that she does not look good in suits. The brother has peach fuzz and admits to shaving every three days; his mother and sister think he needs to shave more often. His adoptive father is dead.
The boy's mother warns him against playing too...
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