"Brother Grasshopper"

I can say that I am a fan of John Updike. I'd read some of his other work in previous classes and I think he is a very talented writer. I related to this story particularly well in fact. I understand the character Fred's desire to have a brother, and I like the way he describes his father's relationship with his sibling. Updike's description of Carlyle and the color of his eyes and his impassive demeanor was very elegant in my opinion. There was a sense of lyricism to that passage that I quite liked. Later on in the story I started to sense that is was in fact more Carlyle's story than Fred's. I enjoyed the ending very much so, and the death of Carlyle was properly dramatic.