Analysis Of Doctor Foster

Important Information The first section is written in second person and is meant to inform the reader about Doctor Foster’s life after the 1950s. Doctor Foster is now retired from his practice in medicine and spends his time now “at the blackjack tables” (Wilkerson, 2010, p. 471) or giving medical advice to his friends and former patients over the phone. Doctor Foster suffers from heart problems and has already had bypass surgery (Wilkerson, 2010, p. 471). However, Doctor Foster is accepting of his condition. He states, “If anything happened to me tomorrow, I wouldn’t have any regrets. I have lived. I’ve done it all. The world don’t owe me nothing” (Wilkerson, 2010, p. 471). His oldest daughter, Bunny is married and is an artist’s agent in

The author, Isabel Wilkerson, recounts attending the Club of Los Angeles as Doctor Foster’s guest in 1996. Attending the meeting were other people from Monroe Louisiana who came to California around the same time Doctor Foster had. Mrs. Wilkerson explains to the group her work on the Great Migration. “They listen[ed] without emotion or much in the way of comment, not seeing exactly what the Migration has to do them, even though they had all been right in the middle of it” (Wilkerson, 2010, p. 478). In addition, the section briefly discusses The Rodney King beating, police acquittals and riots as well as the O.J. Simpson trial. Doctor Foster states, “I’m sick of O.J. I don’t know what to do. They have choked us with this” (Wilkerson, 2010, p. 478). No one in the Monroe Club wanted to discuss the trial; instead, they continue the conversation from the last meeting about the people back home and what they been through (Wilkerson, 2010, p.

472): “A formal ball, especially one at which young women are presented to society” (Free Dictionary).

• Demerol (p. 473): “a synthetic narcotic drug used to treat pain” (Free Dictionary).

• Percodan (p. 473): “A trademark for a drug containing oxycodone and aspirin” (Free Dictionary).

• DeSoto (p. 478): “An automobile made by the Chrysler Motors Corporation (Detroit, MI) from 1928–1960” (Free Dictionary).

• Expatriate (p. 478): A person who “removes (oneself) from residence in one 's native land” (Free Dictionary).

Situational Competencies

As mentioned in the first section of reading, Doctor Foster has on his bookshelves famous authors and scientists. Tolstoy was an acclaimed Russian author. His most notable works include War and Peace and Anna Karenina (Free Dictionary). Sigmund Freud was a famous psychologist who founded psychoanalysis and psychosexual development (Free Dictionary). Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and scientist. As a writer, he is a poet and novelist. He spent 50 years to complete his two-part poem Faust. Regarding him as a scientist, Goethe’s research focused on botany (Free Dictionary). Lastly, Herodotus was a Greek historian. His writings were on the Persian Wars (Free