Father Timeline and Summary
MoreFather Timeline and Summary
- Father attends Groton and Harvard and then, after his family has squandered their fortune, buys a small flag and fireworks business that he grows into a successful business.
- Father meets Mother during a business trip through Ohio and later marries her. They have a son, Little Boy.
- Father goes to the Arctic with Peary, where he is always cold and is fascinated by the customs of the Inuit. He sleeps with an Inuit woman.
- Father returns from the Arctic voyage "gaunt, shrunken..." He tries to adjust to the new confidence of his wife and the black woman and baby now living in his home.
- After Coalhouse's car is vandalized, Father tries to help him get restitution and then tells him to move on.
- Father helps the police in their pursuit of Coalhouse.
- Feeling that he's neglected his son, Father takes him to a baseball game and is offended by the coarse language.
- During the pursuit of Coalhouse, Father takes the family to Atlantic City. At first he enjoys himself, but soon he can't sleep and is bored.
- Father returns to New York to help the police negotiate with Coalhouse.
- After he and Mother become estranged, Father moves to Washington D.C., where he sells weapons to the U.S. Military. He dies on a business trip to London when the Lusitania is sunk.