The restaurant is brought up many times throughout Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. It is a symbol of togetherness in the family. Both the restaurant and the Tull family are not very stable. They both have Ezra trying to keep them together. Ezra takes over the restaurant from Mrs. Scarlatti and tries to fix it up and keep it running. He changes the sign. He wants a lot of people to eat at his restaurant.

Ezra also tries to bring the family together. He brings them to the restaurant for a family dinner many times. He sets up many family gatherings. Ezra never tries to cause fights in the family, nor does he ever partake in any fights. He would rather "live his life as a liquid." (165)

At the restaurant, the family can not finish a complete dinner together. They can always start of all right, but then the family ends up arguing over something. Someone in the family leaves the dinner table. In the Tul

In the last chapter, the family finally gets together for a dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Even Beck shows up. The family is not fully together because Pearl had passed away. During the dinner, the family got into an argument. Beck left and the dinner was never finished as a family. (297)

When the children grow older, the family has a very hard time of staying together or getting together at all. Jenny goes to school, gets a job and a husband, and has kids. Cody goes to school, and gets a job and a wife. Ezra joins the Army, and then comes home and takes care of Pearl. With all of their separate lives it is almost impossible to get together.

In life, Cody does what he can so he can be better than everyone else, especially Ezra. He tries to get Ezra in trouble, for example, by taking pictures of him sleeping with alcohol bottles around him. (Chapter 2) He also tries to steal every girl that ever liked Ezra from him. He succeeded by stealing Ezra's one true love, Ruth. Cody is the black sheep of the family and it shows off in his conniving ways in playing Monopoly.

The symbols of the restaurant and the Monopoly game are big parts of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. They symbolize the family's togetherness and the different personalities of each character. Both symbols have the family broken up and fighting at the end. No m

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