PERSONAL
ACCOUNTS
Joa Dipton On Going Home
re, My brother
ge isthe classic betrayalwide engendered
sry cupboard, |
a
drawer, and I spread the contents on the bed. 4
mer I was seventeen. A let sjection from The Ni
of the site for a shopping center my father did not
cabbage roses
lution
ynd-painted in 1900. Nor is there any a
around
from Ti
of news of what by now seems to me
as seen, letters which require att
izgests uneasily that I get out, drive to San
ard: I
rive across the river to a fa
| Western station. Later
Js. The man who euns his cat
lay, and although I know that I will be in Los Ange
y talks, that
tion the broken monuments in the graveyard. My mother shrugs.
1 go to visit my great-aunts. A few of them think now that
in anecdote abs
party: a white cake, strawber
ipagne saved from another party. In the eve-
shame
Comm
OME AGAIN 3
ning, after she has gone to sleep, I kn
where it is pressed against the slats,
unprepared fi
promise her that she will grow up with a sense o
imother’s teacups, would like t
‘ombed, woul
that, I give her a xylophone and a sundress from
o tell her a Funny story.
The Norton Re
Questions
1. Joan speaks
‘engendered by meeting.
ne as “paralyzed by
1° past at every turn’ (paragraph 3). What ab
paragraph 3), and the
members (for examph
Didion's use of
Cnaaenar Lee Coming Home Again
NEN MY MOTHER began using the electronic pump
we moved het