"Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant"

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This paper is a brief review of Anne Tyler's "Dinner at Homesick Restaurant". The paper explores the symbolism of Tyler's chapter titles and suggests that these titles are metaphors for the dislocation, alienation and disconnection that run rampant through the text. The paper also reveals that a major part of life is overcoming the anger and resentment of youth.

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"Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a very moving story about a family coming together after too many years apart. It is also a story rife with symbolism. This paper will examine Tyler's text by looking at the meanings behind each of the text's ten chapter titles. As will soon become apparent, this is a book and a family story that operates on many different levels. To begin with, Chapter One is entitled, "Something you Should Know". What we know from this opening chapter is that Pearl Tull always wanted extra children; we also know that there is something hidden about her husband, Beck Tull (Tyler 8-9)."

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