Saturday Night (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James T. Farrell
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: 1929
- Setting: Chicago
- Principal Characters: Joseph “Dopey” Carberry, Michael “Mike” McGuire, Anna McGuire, Kate Carberry, Phil Garrity, Jack Kennedy, Red Murphy
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Sex or sexuality, Sin or Original sin, Unemployment or unemployed workers, Accidents, Death or dying, Dropouts, Corruption, Predestination, Drunk driving or drivers
- Locales: Chicago, IL
The Story
From a detached and rather cool third-person point of view, the reader observes Joseph “Dopey” Carberry shamble into the dining room of his Uncle Mike's and Aunt Anna's home and sit down to eat, only to begin yet another Saturday night of bickering and blathering with his relatives. Dopey and his two sisters have been living with their aunt and her brother since their father remarried. He is harangued by all assembled for his shiftlessness. His Aunt Anna directs the abuse: “We’ve helped him, fed him, clothed him, waited on him, coddled him, tried to point the...
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