Fitting Ends (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Dan Chaon
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1980's and the 1990's
- Setting: Pyramid, a small village in Nebraska
- Principal Characters: Stewart, Del, Their father and mother
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Ghosts or apparitions, 1980’s, Domestic violence, Brothers, Storytelling, Small-town life, Truthfulness and falsehood, Trains, 1990’s, Nebraska, Lifesaving, Rescue
- Locales: Nebraska
The Story
Because “Fitting Ends” is about a man trying to fit all the loose ends of his life together into a coherent story, it does not have a chronological plot structure. Instead it revolves around various stories the narrator, Stewart, recalls from his childhood. The first such story, about his brother Del, which appears in a book titled More Tales of the Weird and Supernatural, recounts three different appearances of a ghostly figure walking on the railroad tracks near the nearly deserted village of Pyramid, Nebraska, and then falling on his knees in front of a...
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