Analysis Of A Family Supper By Kaguro

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“A Family Supper” by Kazuo Ishiguro is a short story about a japanese family sitting down having dinner together for the first time in years, the mother of this family died a little while ago from eating a poisonous fish. The symbols of this story are the poisonous fish, the dim lights all throughout the house, and the well. Firstly, the poisonous fish is a symbol of the mysterious swift but sudden death that his mother suffered from trying to cook for a woman whom they give no further details other than her name. The fact that the process of cleaning the fish is so dangerous and the people continue to eat it makes the reader wonder why they are willing to take the risk of death. The fish is mysterious because one wrong move on the

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