His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Aaron Roy Weintraub
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: About 1975
- Setting: An unspecified Midwestern American city
- Principal Characters: The narrator, The narrator's father, The narrator's mother, The narrator's sister
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Memory, Parents and children, Psychology or psychologists, Emotions, Fathers
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
The Story
This story has no plot in the conventional sense; its narrator does not tell a tale with sequential events. Rather, he recalls from his childhood various sensations, emotions, and incidents arising from his relationship at that time with his father. The story is not solely about what he felt as a child; it is, more important, also a presentation of the sensations and emotions that his recollections arouse in him as he dredges them up from the past. The story is, then, in part a study of an emotional state in a man who is recalling and interpreting emotional states...
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