The Lie Short Story Summary

Most of us have felt those mornings that we do not want to go to work or school. We just want to do something else and take the day off instead of doing what we do every single day. In the story The Lie by T. Coraghessan Boyle, Lonnie, the main character share those same emotions of tiredness of the monotony and repetition in our lives. In the story Lonnie chooses to take a couple of days off work because he does not like the way that his life is going at the moment. There are many factors that led Lonnie to make this decision. Lonnie’s situation with his family at home played a role in him taking the days off work. In the story Lonnie says, “Clover was back in the room, the baby flung over one shoulder. She was wearing an old Cramps T-shirt she liked to sleep in…like a thousand consecutive mornings now”. Lonnie is tired of the same morning routine, the way that he and his wife’s relationship is going and the fact that he has to be a father. By taking the days off he avoided dealing with his marriage and his baby. At work things are not going so smoothly also. Lonnie is stuck on a dead end video editing job. His relationship with his boss and coworkers is not going well. Lonnie says, “I felt I just couldn’t face the editing bay, the computer screen, the eternal idiocy of the dialogue repeated
By taking the days off he feels youthful and back to the days when he did not have to worry about marriage, deal with the responsibility of being a father or his career. We should not strive to be like Lonnie, we should be happy with what we got and not attempt to find ways to digress from our responsibilities in our lives no matter how repetitive or tedious they might seem. We all have those days were we feel like Lonnie, but unlike him we should attempt to endure and make those sacrifices knowing that thing that we dread doing will get better in the future, if we