![]() ![]() they hardly have any scenes together at all, and I think if there had been more of a sense of camaraderie and companionship between them, the book would have had more emotional heft. I think the main character and Cletus’ friendship should have been developed more. I kind of wish that the main character was Bunny, that would have been interesting. ![]() It turns out that a lot of William Maxwell’s writing is semi-autobiographical and he used certain themes and family relationships repeatedly. There were such strong similarities between the main character in this novel’s family situation and that of Bunny Morrison in They Came Like Swallows (the first book I read by William Maxwell) that at first I thought that So Long, See You Tomorrow was a sequel to They Came Like Swallows and the unnamed character was an older Bunny. The murderer’s son, Cletus, is ignored by the protagonist after Cletus’ father’s actions rock the community and the narrator, now an old man, tries to make sense of the events leading up to the murder. The unnamed narrator of So Long, See You Tomorrow looks back on his youth and the misfortunes that befell a childhood friend when his father murdered another man and then committed suicide. ![]()
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