Victrola (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wright Morris
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: 1981
- Setting: A small American town
- Principal Characters: Bundy, Victrola, Miss Tyler, Avery
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Dogs, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Old age or elderly people
- Locales: United States
The Story
Bundy is an elderly man who lives alone with his dog. He has had the dog since the death of its previous owner, Miss Tyler, who lived above Bundy. The overweight, asthmatic dog was already old at the time of Miss Tyler's death, several years before. When he lived with Miss Tyler, the dog always snarled when he met Bundy and barked wildly when he opened his mailbox. Bundy had taken the dog in even though he has never liked large dogs with short pelts and “had once been a cat man.” Bundy does admire the dog's “one redeeming feature”: He sits whenever he hears...
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