My Side of the Matter (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Truman Capote
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The 1930's or the 1940's
- Setting: Rural Alabama
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Marge, Eunice, Olivia-Ann
- Genres: Realism, Short fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, South or Southerners, Marriage
- Locales: Alabama
The Story
The first-person narrator records his side of the quarrel with his bride's family, in a household ruled by Marge's maiden aunt Eunice. He reveals his youthful egotism in the first paragraph by proclaiming his intention to reveal the facts to the “citizens of the U.S.A.”
Though the setting and circumstances have some of the qualities of the seamier, possibly degenerate rural South popular in some southern literature, they hardly suggest any dark secrets. The two maiden aunts in their big old house, with “real columns out in front” and japonica trees...
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