Fugu_Fumble

Fugu Fumble Kazuo Ishiguro tells us of an exceedingly powerful story. In “A Family Supper,” a young man returns home from California. When he arrives in Japan, his father, who shows great hospitality, welcomes him. The young man soon learns that his mother previously died by eating a poisonous fish called Fugu. His father then tells him that his business collapsed and his partner killed himself. Later, Ishiguro mentions that his father’s business partner killed his wife and his two daughters beforehand through the words of Kikuko, the father’s daughter. The father then prepares dinner while Kikuko and her brother socialize outside in the garden. When the two return inside, the fathers asks Kikuko to help prepare dinner while he takes his son for a tour around the house. The small family then reorganizes to eat a fish diner. During dinner, the son realizes a picture on the wall but does not recognize the woman in it. His father informs him that that is his mother. After a moment of silence, they finish with dinner and retire into the tearoom, where the father and son wait for Kikuko to return with tea. father, story, mother, son, dinner, death, family, fish, battleship, young, mother’s, father’s, children, tone, person, live, language, japan, ishiguro, helps, conflict, because, two, psychological, one, narrator, man, kikuko, few, characters, california, words, through, symbolizes