The Mississippi Quarterly, September 22nd, 1999
Introduction
THE PASSAGE UNDER CONSIDERATION COMES FROM the penultimate chapter (ch. 9) of Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), which I had read cursorily--the easy readability of Tyler's writing, makes this only too possible--and which returned to me a few years later. It is this return I wish to analyze here. The potentially polysemic "withdrawal" seemed apt to render part of the attraction this somewhat grey, ashen text can produce on the reader. But, as will be seen, although it is in all evidence placed under the sign of withdrawal, from a diegetic, thematic, thymic, ...
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