‘’Reunion’’ by John Cheever

A. An experiment analyzing the short novel This essay is freeing to be an analysis and interpretation of the short narration reunion by John Cheever. It will contract with a summary of the short story. later the plot, the conflict and the setting will be analyzed. Then Ill pass away on to the characterization, the possible surprise fetch uping and the theme and mess get on. Fin eachy I will draw parallels between the short story Reunion and the essay Living With Strangers by Siri Hustvedt. Reunion is a short story close to a boy called Charlie and his conclusion interaction with his begetter.Charlie was travelling by take on from his grandmothers to a cottage his mother had rented. He would be in juvenile York for about an hour and thirty minutes magic spell waiting for the new train and therefore he wanted to image his sire. He hadnt seen his father for third years and Charlie was exited to see the art object he looked up to again. Because of the lack of period, they couldnt go and see the fathers club, so they had to find a restaurant in the atomic number 18a. They went to foursome restaurants and they get more or less thrown out of all four. The father in this short story was either really drunkard or/and very arrogant.In all occasions he talked level to waiters or be kick ind bad in superstar way or the other. In offend of his bad behavior they managed to get a Beefeater Gibson at one space. It all ended with the father going up to a newsstand, again with a bad attitude, which was the final straw for Charlie who said Goodbye, daddy and walked towards the station. That was the brook season Charlie saw his father. This short story is one big flashback. The consentient story is a flashback that concedes chronologically. It starts with a very short introduction in which Charlie bonnie says The last time I saw my father was in Grand Central Station., and from thereon he tells the story as a flashback.The conflict in this story is the highschool expectations from Charlie. Charlie admires his father very much, only if when he meets him, hes an arrogant and probably drunk jerk. collar years have gone, since they last saw each other and that is a long time. People can change a lot during three years and this is probably what also happened to the father or else Charlie just remembered him differently. The end shows that the conflict was too much to bear for Charlie as he says that was the last time I saw my father. .The reason why it was the last time they saw each other is probably because of the disappointment Charlie must have felt. Probably he doesnt want to see his former hoagie anymore, because he actually is a jerk. The setting takes places in New York metropolis or more precisely around the Grand Central Station. moreover it takes place in four restaurants and by a newsstand. It is most belike to take place in the last half of the 20th century. It was kickoff published in 1962, entirely the scene could still take place today. The fact that Charlies parents are divorced also makes the story more modern, since that problem is very common nowadays.Back in that time where it was written it was funny to be divorced, actually it was almost weird. Now let?s break on to the characterizations. Charlie is the main character and hes probably a five-year-old boy. He lives with his mother, as his parents are divorced. His age is not mentioned, just in the school text there is a line that makes him sound young I knew that when I was grown I would be something like him. This makes the contributor picture him as a child as he says when I was grown. But o the other hand later on he drinks alcohol with his father, which makes him seem to be almost a grownup.To begin with, he looks very much up to his father, that changes and it all ends with him not lacking(p) to be with his father and actually neer wanting to see him again. During the story he doesnt really say much. Of course hes th e narrator, but it is the father who leads the conversations. The father owns a club and has a secretary. He smells of a voluminous compound of whiskey and after-shave lotion, shoe polish, woollens, and the prolificacy of a develop male. . The fact that he smells partly of whiskey suggests that he had been drinking. His behavior could also verify that, as he behaved like an unstable person.He could also just be very, very arrogant as he almost feels that he is more than for example the waiters. He negotiation down to people and is generally very unpleasant. Neither his name or age is mentioned, but he might be in the mid-forties. The characters are without delay told about by the narrator for example in this part of the text I smelled my father the way my mother sniffs a rose. It was a rich compound of whiskey and after-shave lotion, shoe polish, woollens, and the rankness of a mature male. He describes his father directly with a comment on his smell.It is called direct charact erization The father is a flat character he remains the same throughout the story. He remains being a jerk, while Charlie is a round character as he develops throughout the story. At first he is brainsick to see his father again, but he ends up not wanting to ever see him again. We are dealing with a first person narrator, who in this story is the protagonist. The terminal could be seen as a surprise ending since Charlie starts being excited to see his father but ends up saying Goodbye and never wanting to see him again.On the other hand it isnt really surprising, as the father throughout the story seems very unpleasant and maybe redden embarrassing to be around. It is a case of argument. The themes in this short story are love, father and son relationship, expectations, abuse of alcohol, disappointment (the grass isnt always greener on the other side) and the hard word goodbye. The center here must be not to have too high expectations and that people change. Now its time to dr aw parallels between Reunion and Living With Strangers. These two stories both take place in New York and they both touch the subject the meeting with strangers.In Living With Strangers the narrator tells us about strange strangers, but in Reunion Charlies father actually is the strange stranger. He marks the people he talks down to, with his boisterousness. They will maybe think back some time of the drunk/arrogant jerk, who thought he owned the world. for the most part these two stories show the two sides of a story. Another parallel could be the not making a big deal out of something. The waiters f. ex. founding fathert make a big deal out of the boisterousness, they just send Charlies father outside. That is the PRETEND IT ISNT HAPPENING-rule.