Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Introduction.
In this book by Anne Tyler, Pearl appears in many parts as a typical older person:
anxious, denying the loss of faculties, re-examining the past, assessing her children, and
so on. To determine what degree these factors were always part of Pearl's make-up and
evident in earlier periods of her life, in her youth or single-motherhood stages, this paper
will provide a review and discussion of Anne Tyler's book, Dinner at the Homesick
Restaurant, followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion.
Review and Discussion.
The debate over nature versus nurture has been in existence for many years, with the
"nature" crowd arguing that people are born ready-made and the "nurture" crowd
suggesting that people learn to become what they are. This debate is particularly
appropriate in determining whether Pearl Tull had always been born the way she was,
fully possessed of the qualities and traits that would later define her life. This analysis is
assisted since the s...