Goodbye, My Brother (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Cheever
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Work: Short story
- Genres: Realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Emotions, Reality, Hallucinations or illusions
- Locales: Massachusetts
The theme of “Goodbye, My Brother,” a story based on Cheever's relationship with his older brother, Fred, is one that preoccupied Cheever over the course of his entire career, from the early story “The Brothers” (1937) to the late novel Falconer. The story takes place on Laud's Head, on the New England coast, where the geographically distant but “close in spirit” Pommeroy clan (a widowed mother, one recently divorced daughter, and three brothers with wives and children) gathers at the family's summer house, built in the 1920's. The unnamed narrator, one of the...
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