From a postcolonial perspective, what is "A Family Supper" really about? You can read about postcolonialism at the following link: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/poetry/critical_define/crit_post.html
I think that the father was poisoning his family with the same fish that killed the mother. It seems like after the death of his wife, collapse of his firm, and seeing what his old partner did he pretty much did the same thing. The only thing i can not put together is the old women in the white kimono that he saw as a child then the picture of his mother that looks exactly the same from right before she died.
The father lost hisbusiness and his wife. His son was estranged, and his daughter would soon be leaving too. He decided that he would put his and his children's fate into the hands of the same kind of fish that took his wife. Japanese families are supposed to stay together. Family and tradition are the most important things to them. If the father prepared the fish properly then everyone would survive, and if not, then they would all go together.
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I think that the father was poisoning his family with the same fish that killed the mother. It seems like after the death of his wife, collapse of his firm, and seeing what his old partner did he pretty much did the same thing. The only thing i can not put together is the old women in the white kimono that he saw as a child then the picture of his mother that looks exactly the same from right before she died.
The father lost hisbusiness and his wife. His son was estranged, and his daughter would soon be leaving too. He decided that he would put his and his children's fate into the hands of the same kind of fish that took his wife. Japanese families are supposed to stay together. Family and tradition are the most important things to them. If the father prepared the fish properly then everyone would survive, and if not, then they would all go together.
also, the ghost in the white kimono had always been his mother.
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