Golden Glove By Joyce Carol Oates Summary

“Golden Gloves” Joyce Carol Oates’ story “Golden Gloves”, is about a premature seven month old baby who born with deformed feet, the tiny arches twisted, and his toe turned inward like fleshy claws. When he was three years old he learned to walk because he could not work. His face is misshape and look like an adult. His parents feel embarrass because he was handicapped. Height years later after he was born he had a surgery on his feet. When his father took him to a boxing match he felt in love with boxing and say that one day he will be a boxer and he will play boxing at the Golden Gloves, and he will be standing not sitting on his wheelchair or in the audience. His father was there in the ring with him and his cousins, and brothers came and hugging one another.
They had stand against a wall and having him taking steps little by little until he reaches them. After reaching his mother’s arm his father ask him to try again that way he can get better and better. The he began to learn in the house by himself. A year has pass and he is able to run in the yard. Seeing how progressive he is, his father bought him a pair of child’s dark brown leather boxing gloves. When he first saw them he had tears all over his face. His father then taught him some basics rules, like “how to hold his guard, how to stand at an angle with his chin tucked against his shoulder (Joe Louis style), how to jab, how to keep moving”