I don’t feel much depth to this story, but I did enjoy it, and it isn’t without meaning, as I’ll get to in a minute. Tom is a plastic surgeon, and his brother Roger is a dentist. They’ve been competitive forever and don’t seem to like each other much, which raises the question of why Roger comes around. Tom is married to Sandy, and for New Yorker fiction this is an unusual relationship. These people actually seem to love each other. They aren’t cheating (or, if they are, it isn’t serious), and except for a minor quarrel they get along just fine. Tom isn’t old, but he is aging, and that is one of the themes of this story. Another theme is blindness. Tom recalls his date with a blind girl, a recollection that is tied up with his hatred for his brother, but the important thing here is that he considers that her blindness is not the absence of light, but the overabundance of light. And that’s something that is happening with Tom. His life is so good that he can’t see it. Until the end, when he concludes that it’s worth fighting for.
Not bad.
March 2, 2009: “Brother on Sunday” by A. M. Homes.
2 comments:
i liked the story very much. i couldn't tell how i felt about tom for most of it. he seemed to be the good guy, as in how he helped out the woman who'd had the mastectomy, but there were also hints that he was becoming as empty as the friends and acquaintances he expressed a great deal of contempt for throughout. good story though
Everyone wishes for whiter teeth. If you had your teeth professionally cleaned and still you are not happy with the colour, you should look for teeth whitening procedures at your nearby dental clinic.
For more : teeth whitening dallas
Also visit : dentist near me, dental office near me, emergency dentistry near me, Affordable dental implants
Post a Comment