analysis of the restaurant

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The Significance of the Restaurant in Anne Tyler 's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

The relationship between both the public and private spheres of life can best be seen in how an individual chooses to adapt his surroundings to the private aspects of his life . This is specifically apparent in the character of Ezra Tull in Anne Tyler 's Dinner at the Homesick

Restaurant . Within the novel , Ezra Tull 's attachment to the `homesick restaurant manifests his attachment to his family . The novel thereby enables the fusion of both the public and private spheres of life as the restaurant stands as the symbolic dinner table where the family may choose to sanctify and affirm their ties with one another or where the family may choose to desecrate and nullify their ties with one another

This process of affirmation and nullification of familial ties can be seen throughout the text as the text revolves around each character 's internal struggle to situate his self within a family broken by its history . The text may thereby be seen as portraying an individual 's struggle within the bounds of the family . This is particularly evident as the characters , the members of the Tull family , recreates and remolds their history as they dine within the restaurant

This recreation and remolding of the family 's history becomes apparent...