A Silver Dish | Summary
Saul Bellow begins “A Silver Dish” by focusing on Woody Selbst, the protagonist, at age sixty. He is a successful businessman, the owner of a tile distribution company, living alone in an apartment on the top floor of his company warehouse. It is Sunday morning, and the bells are ringing in churches all around the South Chicago neighborhood where he lives. Woody reflects on the death of his father, Morris “Pop” Selbst, earlier in the week. He thinks of other people in his life: his mother, whose conversion to Catholicism hastened her husband’s abandonment; his two weak-willed...
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