Leg Review

“Leg” Review

“Leg”, a short story written by Steven Polansky is a very interesting short story about how n accident on the baseball field can bring a father and son closer together. Through the short story the main character Dave suffers a terrible cut on his leg from sliding on gravel in baseball. He denies how bad it is and refuses to see a doctor about his severely damaged leg until his thirteen year old soon confronts him early in the morning. The boy in the story is very mean to his father until this accident.

This short story starts out with Dave playing baseball on his parish team. While his son Randy and wife are sitting in the stands, his son doesn’t like his father very much he makes fun of him constantly. During a brave play Dave decides to run to third when clearly he will be out, but he slides and badly cuts his leg up making it very hard to walk, but he finished up the game severely injured. During the story Dave refuses to see a doctor reassuring himself that his leg is healing on its own with out the need of medical attention. He keeps on staying home and delaying his trip to the doctors until the doctor starts calling, then