... by Bernard Malamud. This story is about a distant father and son relationship, which is based on silence. The father, Leo, considers his son, Harry, to be a stranger in his own house because of his private nature. Harry begins to show that something is wrong by either being disrespectful to his father or by showing his depression on the subject of the ... with his tragic turn of events, Hamlet keeps his feelings bottled up. After learning that his mother remarried with "most wicked speed"(p.31: 161), Hamlet curses the law against "self-slaughter"(p.29: 136) and "all the uses of this wor...

• Word Count: 1446
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School