#199 Love- William Maxwell
I got this story from the That Glimpse of Truth short story
collection. It says of Maxwell: “..was the New Yorker’s fiction editor for many
years but, since his death, his own work has come to be highly appreciated. He
edited many of the best-known writers of the last century including Nabokov,
Updike, Salinger, Cheever, Gallant, Welty and Bashevis Singer.” This is my
first time reading him.
Love is a quaint story about a fifth grade teacher stricken
with Tuberculosis. Her class adores her in a way that no class has ever adored
a teacher. It lovingly illustrates the power that educators can have over children.
We will always remember out teachers. I remember my fifth grade teacher…Thanks
you Mrs. Abels!
Notable Passage: “She didn’t belong to us anymore. She
belonged to her illness.”
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