Gent (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Rick DeMarinis
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The early 1950's
- Setting: Far Cry, a town somewhere in the United States
- Principal Characters: Jack, Jade, LaDonna, Gent Mundy
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Husbands, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Wives, Parents and children, Adolescence, Suicide, Twentieth century, Poverty or poor people, Fear, Remarriage, Weddings, Stepfamily, Fourth of July
- Locales: United States
The Story
“Gent” is told from the point of view of Jack, a twelve-year-old boy, from the time his mother marries Gent Mundy through the next two years. Jackie, as his mother calls him, realizes that his mother has married Gent to provide for her two children. Jack describes events dispassionately and accepts whatever happens in his new family.
The story opens with Jack giving a brief family history. His father, whom Jack remembers as a large and powerful man who was a hero in World War II, committed suicide by shooting himself. A year later, Jack's mother, Jade,...
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