Frog Dances (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen Ditchik
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1960's to 1980's
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Howard Tetch, Denise, Flora Selenika, Francine
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Parents and children, Authors or writers, New York City, Marriage, Fathers, Dancing or dancers, Happiness, Perfectionism, Dating
- Locales: New York, NY
The Story
Howard Tetch, a writer and college teacher of writing, is walking down a street in New York City when he accidentally looks in a window and sees a man about his age dancing around the room holding in his arms a two- or three-month-old baby. The music to which he is dancing is the slow movement of a Gustav Mahler symphony. The scene's depiction of a father's perfect moment with his child and the beauty of the paternal dance of love stirs Howard so profoundly that he feels impelled to reproduce it in his own life. Determined to reify that edenic moment in his own life,...
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