![]() ![]() The narrator’s loss is compounded by his father’s silence. ![]() His mother dies two days after giving birth to his younger brother. The narrator begins by describing his childhood. He is determined to make amends by writing a memoir, which is this book. He harbors regrets about failing to speak to Cletus at school after Cletus’s father’s suicide. Clarence is later found at the bottom of a gravel pit, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.Īn unnamed narrator has been haunted by memories of the murder/suicide for his whole life because he knew the murderer’s son Cletus. On a winter morning in Lincoln, Illinois, a tenant farmer named Clarence Smith murders his neighbor Lloyd Wilson and cuts off his ear with a razor. This study guide refers to the Vintage International paperback edition published by Random House in 1996.Ĭontent Warning: So Long, See You Tomorrow contains a death by suicide and human and animal abuse. The story probes themes of Family Instability and Its Effect on Children, Father-Son Communication, and Memory and Fictionin a brief but expansive examination of storytelling itself. It explores the author’s memories and regrets surrounding a murder committed by his friend’s father. So Long, See You Tomorrow is an autobiographical novel set in Maxwell’s hometown of Lincoln, Illinois. ![]()
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