Father Comes Home From The Wars Suzan Lori Parks Analysis

In 2006, Suzan-Lori Parks wrote a short story named Father Comes Home From the Wars. Parks was the daughter of an army colonel and moved frequently as a child. This story is about the interactions between the soldiers and their families right after they comes home from the war. What confused me the most is that the whole story is very vague and not that many details of what is happening. I believe that Parks chose to lack in details to connect to more people around that world and show that coming after the war is not always happy. Each scene in the story is a different interaction or scenario but even though they are all different, they all have an underlying theme that coming home after the war is not always cheerful and happy. Parks starts off the story with a scene where the father comes into the house to see Mother. The mother makes the father leave and come back into the house so the interaction between the two happens the what it does in the movies. But what else is odd that she acts like she is going to hit him on the head with a pan as if she does not actually want him there. Why was Mother not happy that the love her life as returned. The reaction of these characters are …show more content…
In part 6, the second half is titles Mother Comes Home From the Wars. It is the only one where a woman is a soldier, it could have been set to more times today or in another country. Adding in Mothers brought in the fact that there are women soldiers, but back then maybe it was a 10-1 ratio. There is a total of 11 parts and only one was a woman soldier. In the stage directions Parks quotes “[s]oldier man arrives, dressed in battle dress. It does not matter from what war; the Trojan war, WWI, American civil...whatever, it does not matter.” because it gives the audience the idea that war is war no matter what time of history or where they are