Ann Tyler Saint Maybe Analysis
Saint Maybe
By: Shanna Gonzales
English 3- 4/5
December 7, 2005
Ann Tyler's Saint Maybe is a complex work that analyzes the grieving process and the human need to reconcile for our sins or wrong doings. At the beginning of the book the Bedloe's are described as the perfect family, much similar to that of a 50's sitcom. Mr. Bedloe is a hard working husband and caring father. And Mrs. Bedloe is a neat cheerful wife and mother. While their children achieve average to excelling academic scores and are athletically as well as socially inclined. Their youngest child, Ian, is even described as being, "handsome and easy going, quick to make friends, fond of a good time." But as soon after the lose of their oldest son, Danny, all of the Bedloes …show more content…
Bedloe asking if Ian could baby-sit, because she has urgent matters to attend to. Ian is reluctant to go, but is forced into volunteering his services because of his mother. When he arrives at his brother's house he informs Lucy that he has an important date and she has to be home by 8:30. What he doesn't tell her, is that his girlfriend, Cicely's, parents are out of town for the night and this is suppose to be a night of intimacy for the tow of them. When Lucy does not come home at 8:30, he grows angry and impatient. When Danny arrives home at ten o'clock, Ian explodes and cons his brother into driving him home to freshen up and then over to Cicely's house. In front of their parents house, still very angry about the events of the night, Ian blurts out that Danny's wife is cheating on him and that it's quite obvious the baby isn't his and wasn't premature. As Ian is upstairs washing up, he hears the rev of an engine and the loud crash of his brother's car smashing into a brick wall, but no squeal of breaks. Danny is killed in the crash and the whole family assumes it was an accident, except Danny. Danny believes his brother drove into the wall to commit suicide, because of what he told him about
By: Shanna Gonzales
English 3- 4/5
December 7, 2005
Ann Tyler's Saint Maybe is a complex work that analyzes the grieving process and the human need to reconcile for our sins or wrong doings. At the beginning of the book the Bedloe's are described as the perfect family, much similar to that of a 50's sitcom. Mr. Bedloe is a hard working husband and caring father. And Mrs. Bedloe is a neat cheerful wife and mother. While their children achieve average to excelling academic scores and are athletically as well as socially inclined. Their youngest child, Ian, is even described as being, "handsome and easy going, quick to make friends, fond of a good time." But as soon after the lose of their oldest son, Danny, all of the Bedloes …show more content…
Bedloe asking if Ian could baby-sit, because she has urgent matters to attend to. Ian is reluctant to go, but is forced into volunteering his services because of his mother. When he arrives at his brother's house he informs Lucy that he has an important date and she has to be home by 8:30. What he doesn't tell her, is that his girlfriend, Cicely's, parents are out of town for the night and this is suppose to be a night of intimacy for the tow of them. When Lucy does not come home at 8:30, he grows angry and impatient. When Danny arrives home at ten o'clock, Ian explodes and cons his brother into driving him home to freshen up and then over to Cicely's house. In front of their parents house, still very angry about the events of the night, Ian blurts out that Danny's wife is cheating on him and that it's quite obvious the baby isn't his and wasn't premature. As Ian is upstairs washing up, he hears the rev of an engine and the loud crash of his brother's car smashing into a brick wall, but no squeal of breaks. Danny is killed in the crash and the whole family assumes it was an accident, except Danny. Danny believes his brother drove into the wall to commit suicide, because of what he told him about