![]() ![]() These suggestions of tragedy and abuse are affected by the audience being introduced to Pearl at her weakest the audience can feel greater sympathy toward her because they have witnessed firsthand how weak and vulnerable Pearl will become. She has no friends, no hobbies (until she becomes a baseball fan in later life), and feels in no way inclined to integrate into the community. Pearl’s love for her family is fierce, but she is given to abusive rages. ![]() ![]() Abandoned by her husband, she is left to raise three children on her own in 1940s Baltimore. In it, the Pulitzer Prize-winner tells the story of the Tull family. After Beck leaves, Pearl devotes herself entirely to her children. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is widely regarded as Anne Tyler’s breakout novel. Over the course of the novel, the audience discovers the extent to which her life is something of a minor tragedy. Pearl is introduced in a moment of weakness, her ill health providing an important context to the occasionally abusive behavior she exhibits later in the text. Pearl’s poor health provides the structure of the novel. ![]() This imprint can be both positive and negative, a testament to Pearl’s complicated emotional state throughout the children’s early lives. The imprint she leaves on the personalities of her children ensures that she is the most important figure in the novel. After her husband, Beck, abandons the family, she resigns herself to raising three children alone. Pearl is the mother of Cody, Ezra, and Jenny. ![]()
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