Gravity (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: David Leavitt
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: A May during the 1980's
- Setting: New Jersey
- Principal Characters: Theo Greenman, Sylvia Greenman
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Blindness or blind persons, 1980’s, Drugs, Medicine, AIDS, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Shopping, Gifts
- Locales: New Jersey
The Story
The first two paragraphs—the opening third of the story's triptych structure—give the background exposition: Theo (probably in his twenties) is dying. Given a choice between a drug that would save his sight and a drug that would keep him alive, he has chosen not to go blind. He has moved back to his mother's house in New Jersey, after living on his own. His mother must give him drug injections four times a day, through a painful catheter in his chest, but she remains cheerful, and each day urges him to go out with her somewhere.
One warm, breezy afternoon...
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