My Old Man (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1920's
- Setting: Italy and France
- Principal Characters: Joe Butler, Butler
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, Adolescence, Teenagers, France or French people, Europe or Europeans, 1920’s, Fathers, Italy or Italians, Horses, Racing
- Locales: France, Italy
The Story
Narrated by the title character's twelve-year-old son, Joe, the story begins in Italy, where the man works as a jockey. Joe recounts the difficulties his father had keeping his weight down and how strenuously he exercised to stay fit. He also recalls how fond he was of his old man as he watched him jump rope in the hot sun. Joe recalls once how tired his father appeared at a weigh-in and how he looked at a younger jockey with envy. Joe thinks that everything might have been better if they had remained in Italy riding at the easy courses in Milan and Torino. He...
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