Family Supper

• Family Supper - written by Ishiguro
• Family Supper -

  Quotes -

  • ‘Being particularly proud of the pure Samurai blood that runs in the family’
  • ’A fine man, a man of principle’
  • ’Inevitably, our conversation since my arrival at the airport had been punctuated by long pauses’
  • ’What is it? … Just fish’
  • ’I couldn’t see very well. It was dark’
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  Summary -

  • Begins with explanation of Fugu fish - which killed mother
  • Father and son have strained relationship
  • Kikuko arrives and takes over cooking
  • Over supper, the father asks the narrators plans
  • Sinister implication over the family meal - fish
  • Father invites narrator to live in the family house with him and Kikuko, when she comes back from university
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  Context -

  • Fugu - popularity rose in WW2
  • Fugu - can be poisonous if not prepared properly
  • Kikuko travelling to America = dramatic irony - reader knows she wants to go hitchhiking rather than live in family home
  • Set in late 1970s/early 1980s