In "A Conversation with My Father", Grace Paley talks about a middle-aged narrator who at the request of her eighty-six-year-old father telling two versions of the same short story. The narrator’s father has certain expectation towards the narrator’s story. Yet, the narrator’s two stories are quite different from what her father expects. In fact, the narrator and her father’s varied views on story-telling is reflected in their different views of life. In this paper, the author will analyze father and daughter’s different views on life in "A Conversation with My Father".
