Goodbye, My Brother (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Cheever
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The late 1940's
- Setting: An island off Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Pommeroy, Helen, Lawrence (Tifty) Pommeroy, Ruth, Chaddy Pommeroy, Odette, Diana Pommeroy, Mrs. Pommeroy
- Genres: Realism
- Subjects: Family or family life
- Locales: Massachusetts
The Story
The narrator begins the story by announcing that he is a Pommeroy, that his father drowned when he was quite young, and that his mother told her children that their family relationships had a kind of permanence they would not likely find in life again. The Pommeroys enjoy the illusion that they are unique. The narrator then introduces the four children, their places of residence, and their spouses. The narrator relates that, as a family, the Pommeroys used to spend summers on Laud's Head, an island off the Massachusetts coast, where, during the 1920's, their father...
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