Charming Billy Study Guide

After the funeral for her husband Billy, Maeve Lynch arranges for forty or so family members to meet at a bar for the reception. It is a small bar in the Bronx that no one has ever heard of and where they have laid out a long table to sit all forty for lunch and drinks if they want. Most of the family members find it a comfortable place for a funeral reception, though many do not miss the irony of having the funeral reception for a man who died of alcohol poisoning in a bar. Dennis, a cousin of Billy's, sits next to Maeve and deals with the waiters, the owner, and will settle the bill at the end of the afternoon. (read more)