Time Of Loss And Dismay: Dislocation, Disconnection And Distortion Of Family Values In Tyler’s Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant

Abstract

The paper intends to investigate the concepts of sex, gender and motherhood at a time when the Dick-Jane principle of an idealized society began to fade. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant questions the place of a father at the dinner table. He no longer stands to support the family or look into the emotional and the financial needs of a family. As a result, the mother has to take the place of a father. The novel explores the changing roles with the changing times and it effects on the present day American family. To Tyler, the family would begin to become a unit of nothingness in case its members do not come together to put together the broken pieces of disintegration.