He's at the Office (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Allan Gurganus
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Plot: Realism, war
- Time of Work: The late 1990's
- Setting: An eastern U.S. city
- Principal Characters: Dick Markham, Miss Green, Betty Markham, Dick Markham, Jr.
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Memory, Twentieth century, World War II, War, Fathers, Death or dying, Veterans, 1990’s, Secretaries, Retirement, Office employees, Hats, Urban life
- Locales: East (U.S.)
The Story
“He's at the Office” is the story of an aging man forced from his job because of his increasingly common memory lapses and of his wife and son, who try to care for him. The father has severe trouble dealing with retirement, for reasons that stretch back more than fifty years, to the 1940's.
Before his forced retirement, Dick Markham was a devoted employee of Integrity Office Supplier, a manufacturer of high-quality office goods. The company did a thriving business from the 1940's into the 1970's, when it was bought by a German firm. With the onset of...
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