The Moonlight (2015)
“Meals, with all their opportunities for accidents, provided his day with its moments of high drama. Lunch particularly was a challenge since George never ate very much for dinner, because bedtime was early at his age and he was afraid of bad dreams. Besides, the really tricky stuff always seemed to show up at lunch. That was when visitors came, if they were coming, and the kitchen staff tried to make an impression. So you had to watch your step at lunch.
Except for his realtor, whom he ...saw about twice a year, George did not have visitors. His only son had stepped on a land mine during the Korean War, his ex-wife had been dead for nearly forty years—killed by the shock, he suspected. He had a kid sister, but he hadn’t heard from her more than half a dozen times since 1938, when she had gone off to California with that husband of hers, and nothing in the past ten years. She would be in her middle seventies, so probably she was dead. Her boy, whose name George couldn’t even remember, might be anywhere. So there were no visitors. It bothered him sometimes, on Christmas and Thanksgiving, when the dining room was nearly empty because everyone was having dinner with The Children, but the rest of the time he thought of it as something of an advantage. He had given up living for other people after his wife left him. His life was his own property.MoreLess
Except for his realtor, whom he ...saw about twice a year, George did not have visitors. His only son had stepped on a land mine during the Korean War, his ex-wife had been dead for nearly forty years—killed by the shock, he suspected. He had a kid sister, but he hadn’t heard from her more than half a dozen times since 1938, when she had gone off to California with that husband of hers, and nothing in the past ten years. She would be in her middle seventies, so probably she was dead. Her boy, whose name George couldn’t even remember, might be anywhere. So there were no visitors. It bothered him sometimes, on Christmas and Thanksgiving, when the dining room was nearly empty because everyone was having dinner with The Children, but the rest of the time he thought of it as something of an advantage. He had given up living for other people after his wife left him. His life was his own property.MoreLess
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