healing. For example, the differences between himself and his parents seems to be hopeless. He writes in the beginning of the book that this split from his parents is most important to him:
What preoccupies me is immediate: the separation I endure with my parents in loss . . . the story of the scholarship boy who returns home one summer from college to discover bewildering silence, facing his parents (5).
It is obvious in the final scene of the book that the author is unhappy with his relationships with the other members of his family. He has not formed deep alliances with them, especially with his distant father. But at least he has come to a place where he can accept the differences. He sees himself as unlike them, as an artist who does not care about money as his mother does. But he can appreciate his mother's sense of humor. He has no communi
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