My Father Was A Writer Analysis

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In the memoir “My Father Was a Writer” Andre Dubus III is trying to explain who his father had become after he got into his writing career. He was in a family of four, they were born on a marine base. They hardly ever got to see their father, when they did Andre noticed that he did not smile much or enjoy his life really. When his father's father died, he retired and he came home. Once he got home he not stopped laughed consistently, he has never been more happy. Then the parties started to happen, every night the house filled with people and cigarette smoke. They still had these parties despite the fact they were completely broke and had to eat canned meat and blocks of government cheese. They would even go to parties at the neighbors house

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