The Shapeshifting Wig

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The ShapeShifting Wig

“The Wig” by Brady Udall, begins with an imagery of an eight-year-old boy finding a “dirty bush of curly blond hair” wig in a garbage dumpster one morning. This wig which is described to be quite similar to the hair the boy’s mother had, creates a strong image of her, bringing the father, the son and the mother to be together again. This is the story of a father-son bond for a better life by giving in into an alternate reality to relieve the loss of the mother.

The setting then switches to the kitchen of the boy’s home, where his father seems irritated then asks where the boy found the wig. He advises the boy to take the wig off but the boy ignores 0him,

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