Shoemaker Arnold (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Earl Lovelace
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: A New Year's Eve during the 1950's
- Setting: A rural village in Trinidad
- Principal Characters: Arnold, Norbert, Old Man Moses, Britto
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Self, Rural or country life, Poverty or poor people, Emotions, Faith
- Locales: Trinidad
The Story
The third-person omniscient narrator of this brief tale opens the story with a compressed exposition of Arnold's character and background. The shoemaker is a proud man, recognized by the villagers for his “undefeated stubbornness,” his “unrelenting cantankerousness,” and his “readiness for confrontation.” No one contests his freely expressed opinions; he is master of his world, the shoemaker's shop. So difficult to live with is Arnold that, years before, his wife and three children “had moved not only out of his house but out of the village.”...
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