This Boy's Life Summary
Tobias Wolff

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This Boy's Life Summary

This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff is a painful examination of what happens to a young man who is left to navigate life by himself. The adults in Toby's life are too preoccupied with their own lives to pay attention to him. His mother is self-centered and childish and never really indicates that she wants Toby around. His wealthy father lives with his other son on the east coast and doesn't...

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Tobias Wolff Biographies (2)

Tobias (Jonathan Ansell) Wolff

6,068 words, approx. 21 pages

Tobias Wolff provided a definition of the guiding principles behind his own stories in explaining his choices of the works of others for Matters of Life and Death (1983), the anthology of contemporary... Read more

Tobias Wolff

3,162 words, approx. 11 pages

"I was a liar myself when I was a kid. I'm still a liar, really, and I don't mean just in terms of telling stories and being a story writer. I wouldn't ever want to be held to a literal version of the... Read more

Essays & Analysis (10)

Critical Review by Geoff Dyer

659 words, approx. 3 pages

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Critical Review by John Clute

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Critical Review by John Rechy

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Critical Essay by Daniel D. Challener

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Critical Review by Richard Eder

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Critical Review by Jeff Danziger

492 words, approx. 2 pages

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Kids and Being Cool

751 words, approx. 3 pages

--Kids and Being Cool-- Kids today are very different from kids one hundred years ago. One way that kids today act different than before is in their behavior. Kids' behaviors today are based on... Read more

This Boy's Life, a Review of Toby

1,322 words, approx. 5 pages

Is Toby growing "too fast too soon"? To what extent is he a "hurried child"? With contrast to the past, America today has become a culture in which the single or divorced parent is quickly becoming le... Read more

Immagination and Decisions

1,684 words, approx. 6 pages

The imagination in This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff helps Toby to realize that he can be a successful person through his own dreams. Toby's fantasy world is where he imagines and makes wrong decisions... Read more

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