Death in the Family
by James Agee, 1957
description: Novel
writer: James Agee
genre: Classics
date: 1957
Summary:
James Agee’s novel A Death in the Family is a classic American story, chronicling just a few days in 1915 during which a husband and father is called out of town to be with his own father, who has had a heart attack, and while returning is killed in a car accident. Agee patterned the story closely after his own life, focusing on a boy who is the same age that he was when his father died. The narrative shifts from one perspective to another, including the young widow and her two children and her atheistic father and the dead man’s alcoholic brother, to name just a few, in an attempt to capture the ways in which one person’s loss immediately and powerfully affects everyone around.
The character that I like most is Jay, who is the best friend of Rufus. If I were to play a role in this novel, I would choose the role of Jay, because Jay is very stable, and fair character in this novel.
If I were a writer of this novel, I would end the novel exactly the same, as James Agee. Because the most interesting part of the novel is its ending.
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