A Family Supper

by

Kazuo Ishiguro

A Family Supper Symbols

The Well

The backyard of the narrator’s childhood home contains a well, which the narrator and his sister Kikuko believed was haunted during their youth. While discussing childhood stories about the ghost that haunted the well, the…

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Fugu

The narrator of “A Family Supper” opens the story by explaining that fugu, the Japanese term for blowfish, has a “special significance” to him because it killed his mother. He describes the way…

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