Sunday Dinner in Brooklyn (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anatole Broyard
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1954
- Setting: Brooklyn
- Principal Characters: Paul, His mother, His father
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, New York City, Fathers, Subways
- Locales: Brooklyn, NY
The Story
A young man named Paul, who is apparently in his twenties, travels from his Greenwich Village apartment to his parents’ Brooklyn home for Sunday dinner. As he walks toward a subway station, he glimpses the colorful characters who populate his path and draws vivid correlations among them, the local landmarks, and the associations they inspire in him. Among an almost circuslike array of people, the reader sees “the Italians . . . all outside on stoops and chairs or standing along the curb in their Sunday clothes . . . mothers with their hair pulled back and their...
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