Sunday in the Park (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Bel Kaufman
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: A city, probably New York
- Principal Characters: A wife and mother, Morton, Larry, Joe, Joe's father
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Children, Husbands, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Wives, Mothers, Parents and children, New York City, 1980’s, Parks
- Locales: New York, NY
The Story
The title suggests how ordinary a scene this brief story presents. In a quiet corner of an unnamed park in an unnamed city, an unnamed woman sits in the sun with her family—what could be more typical, more universal? Her husband, Morton, who works at a university, is pale and intelligent, enjoying some time out-of-doors with the Sunday paper. Their three-year-old son Larry is playing in the sandbox, earnestly digging a tunnel. The mother sighs, content with her life.
Suddenly another child about Larry's age throws a shovel of sand at Larry's head, narrowly...
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