Reunion (short story)


"Reunion" is a short story by the American writer John Cheever, first published in the October 27, 1962 issue of The New Yorker, and later collected in The Stories of John Cheever. It is about a boy who meets his father.

Themes


; We do not choose our family
; Intelligent people can be the worst
; The "sorrows of gin"

Characters

; Son and narrator

Setting

is where the father and son meet, and they go to four separate restaurants and a newspaper stand. The setting of the train station builds a motif of the boy going in a new direction in his life after coming to a new understanding of his father.