The dream of going to America p 353/354 will not happen.
He also senses the inevitability of his life following his parents’. He begs to keep pulling the white hairs in a desperate attempt to hold time back: p 358 last paragraph. He moves from considering distasteful his task of removing his father’s white hairs to a full awareness of the process of ageing which he ‘is powerless to stop’. � In the space of the story the narrator has his own recognition of mortality and emerges from boyhood into the adult world. Overview � This story’s concern with age and mortality is reflected in the structure, beginning with the removal of the narrator’s father’s white hairs and moving to his friend’s father’s terminal illness.
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