What would you give up to achieve happiness? 1960’s America answered that question in the form of declining family values. This era ushered in an increase of irresponsibility affecting families; namely the children of those families. In 2011, an award winning fiction author, Andre Dubus III, published his memoir “Townie: A Memoir,” a non-fiction work. It is a story of a young boy’s ending childhood at the hands of his father’s pursuit of becoming a writer and the accompanying lifestyle that went along with it. Analysis of an excerpt of his memoir entitled “My Father Was a Writer” is achieved through looking at a series of significant events, vivid details used, and the writer’s stance towards his father. In his excerpt, the author, Dubus,
