Teenage Wasteland (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Tyler
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The early 1970's
- Setting: An unnamed city
- Principal Characters: Donny Coble, Daisy, Matt Coble, Calvin Beadle
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Child rearing or parenting, Parents and children, Adolescence, Teenagers, Alienation, Schools or school life, Runaway children, Basketball, Tutors or tutoring
- Locales: United States
The Story
When Daisy Coble receives a telephone call from the principal of her son Donny's private school, the boy's problems do not seem serious. He is described as “noisy, lazy, disruptive, always fooling around with his friends.” At a conference with the school's principal, Daisy is ashamed to be regarded as a delinquent, unseeing, or uncaring parent. She describes the restrictions that she and her husband have placed on Donny: no television on school nights, limited telephone calls, and so on. Following the conference, Daisy conscientiously follows the principal's...
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