Save the Reaper (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Munro
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: A summer's day in 1998
- Setting: Near Lake Huron, Ontario, Canada
- Principal Characters: Eve, Sophie, Ian, Philip, Daisy, Harold, The girl
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans
- Locales: Ontario, Canada
The Story
Eve, the central character of “Save the Reaper,” has rented a house near a Lake Huron, Ontario, beach, which she had known as a child, in order to entice her married daughter Sophie and her children, Philip and Daisy, to visit. Eve has not seen the family in five years, for they live in California. Her daughter and the children arrive first. When Sophie goes to meet her husband's plane in Toronto, Eve takes her grandchildren Philip and Daisy for a drive to a nearby village to get ice cream.
Along the way, they play a tiresome game that involves imagining...
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