Destructive Parental Control a

Ezra is always the weak one in his mother’s eyes in Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. Ezra is the youngest and the one who needed his mother’s protection. Unfortunately, in this work by Anne Tyler, Pearl never releases this parental grip. This behavior stem’s from Pearl’s need to be wanted and loved by someone while always being needed in the world. This causes two main problems for Ezra, he had a …

…he resents the decision being made for him and follows a career path where college is unnecessary. The body of this conflict provides a warning to the reader. The entire book serves as a parable showing the results of bad decisions and how hard they are to break through generations of family. The conflict adds a moral to the story, one where the reader is shown consequences to behavior in hopes of future conscious avoidance.