Separation

1.
- Richard
- Joan
- Margareth
- John
- Dickie
- Judith

2. Richard’s POV

3. He wants to divorce his wife. So, with her help, they start deciding how they’ll tell all four
of their kids. They start by telling their youngest child, John being the one who began to
throw a tantrum (eating a cigarette and a napkin), to start then running with Richard
behind him. At this point, John starts to blow off steam about how hard his school life
has been. After this, Richard and Joan are about to go to sleep, but she’s angry at him
because he started crying while telling their kids, making it seem as if she was the bad
guy in the story. Joan tells Richard that he’s going to be the one to tell Dickie alone.
Getting to the end of the story, Richard picks up Dickie, his oldest son, at the train
station after he’s back from the concert. After leaving his friends, Richard starts
explaining and telling Dickie everything, he reacts calmly at the moment, but when they
are back at their house and at the moment Richards’ saying good night, Dickie gives his
father a kiss on the lips and asks him “Why?”

4. Dickie’s enjoying his time at the concert with some friends. When said concert finishes,
he takes a train to get back home where he finds his dad already waiting for him. It’s a
calm ride home at the beginning, but after driving past the church, Richard starts telling
him everything about the separation. Dickie’s collected, even when arriving home, he
closes calmly the door to this room. But it’s once his dad goes to say goodbye, finding
him crying, that everything’s too much. He kisses his dad on the lips while crying and
asks him “Why?”, a question his dad cannot respond to.

5. It’s a bit difficult to say something. Everything’s from Richard’s POV so we only know his
feelings and how he has a lot of regret, but we don’t know anything about how Joan
feels. I believe there’s a probability of them staying together for the sake of their kids, but
I hope they do divorce. It’s not good for the kids to see and grow up seeing a kind of love
where they don’t love each other and are just together because of the melancholy of all
the years of being together, it’s not a healthy love.