A Family Supper

Kazuo Ishiguro’s short story, “A Family Supper” details a bizarre, tension-filled family that is reunited after experiencing the death of the mother. In the story, speaker reveals that he left his family in Japan and moved to California; however, he has returned to Japan because of his mother’s death. Considering that the narrator’s mother died by eating the poisonous fugu fish, a sense of peculiarity is reiterated when the narrator’s father feeds his family fish and the story ends without further dialogue. Specifically, the narrator employs vivid imagery, ambiguous dialogue, and foreboding descriptive details to amplify the mystery that the story presents.
The narrator employs eerie visual imagery as he describes the setting to add mystery