Narrator (“In the Old Days”)

The narrator of the story “In the Old Days” is a woman about 30 years in age. She works as an English teacher at a public school in New York City. She was born in the United States and was raised by her mother, who is a Haitian immigrant. The narrator never met her father. One day, she receives a phone call from her father’s wife, saying her father is dying. The narrator flies to Miami to see him, but he dies before she arrives. The narrator feels grief for never having had a father-daughter relationship.