Dinner at the Restaurant
Anne Tyler, a writer from Minneapolis, is known for her ability to explore the ways in which "unexceptional" people create families out of what is seemingly a hopeless muddle of failed or failing relationships. This is exactly what she does with the Tull family in her novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Throughout the novel a striking image emerges of Pearl Tull caused by her many trying circumstances; her husband left her with three children to provide both emotional and financial support, and her failure to give her children a loving and secure home. Each family member played a distinctive role in the family: abusive and suffocating mother Pearl, jealous and manipulative Cody, distant Jenny, and placid Ezra who tried to keep the family together with his establishment, The Homesick Restaurant. I think that Anne Tyler’s novel shows how each member of this dysfunctional family had to first learn how to soothe their childhood wounds in order to unite as a family at the end. Cody, the oldest of the Tull children, created the basis of one of the most destructive relationships in the novel. When I was reading, I found out that Pearl Tull’s youngest son, Ezra, is her favorite, and Cody becomes consumed with jealousy for his bro
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Approximate Word count = 1030
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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