Man, Woman and Boy (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen Ditchik
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: Somewhere in the United States
- Principal Characters: An unnamed man, His wife, Their son
- Genres: Short fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: Family or family life, Husbands, United States or Americans, Wives, Memory, Parents and children, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century
- Locales: United States
The Story
An unnamed husband and wife are in the middle of a fierce domestic battle that threatens to break up the family and lead to the dividing up of household items. Both parents are concerned with what will become of their son after they divorce. The scene turns out to be an imagined one, however, as both parents are merely reading quietly as their son works on a puzzle.
At times, the husband and wife argue over the division of domestic duties such as cleaning, dusting, and cooking. Because the wife works as a teacher and spends much of her time correcting papers,...
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