“No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.”- Christopher Morley
The quote above displays individual desire love and attention to fulfill their loneliness. It reminds me of Russell Banks’ short story, “My Mother’s Memoirs, My Father’s Lie, and Other True Stories.” Bank’s short story appears loneliness of mankind even in a family relationship. The reason why his fiction is well-known is that he connects his personal stories to his fiction so it seems more vivid and realistic compared to other ordinary author’s story. Russell Banks was conceived on March 28, 1940 in Newton, Massachusetts and brought up in the residential area of Barnstead, New Hampshire, the child of Earl and Florence Banks. He got accepted to Colgate University,