Domestic Tragedies

According to Paul Gray (67), Anne Tyler's "fiction noticeably broadened and deepened; the cast of characters grew more diverse and the lives led by her people had assumed unmistakable moral dimensions." At the core of Tyler's novels such as Saint Maybe and The Accidental Tourist are terrible domestic tragedies that reshape the lives of each novel's protagonists. Tragedy in both stories leads to despair and ultimately to redemption.

In The Accidental Tourist, the young son of Macon Leary, Ethan, "was murdered in a Burger Bonanza his second night at camp. It was one of those deaths that make no sense" (Tyler, 1, 18). The murder of the young boy leads to the disintegration of his parents' marriage, because neither paren

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