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Annotated by:
- Aull, Felice
- Date of entry: Apr-15-1996
Summary
An old, man--a Chinese immigrant to America--is dying in Chinatown, "a sick dog" who yearns for his homeland and for the wife "who died waiting / in the home of my province . . . . " He can't relate to the young political activists who want him to join in protest against "this gray life"--a life which has never really engaged him. He imagines his ashes being carried by the waterways to join the ashes of his wife; she is the helmsman who will lead him back to comfort and joy.
Miscellaneous
Introduction by Garrett Hongo.
Primary Source
The Open Boat
Publisher
Doubleday: Anchor
Place Published
New York
Edition
1993
Editor
Garrett Hongo
Commentary