A Shocking Accident by Graham Greene. Short summary

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Оne of the main characters is Jerome, whose father died in Naples in an accident when a pig fell on him from the fifth-floor balcony.

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One of the main characters is Jerome. As a child, he was the head boy of his class. One Thursday, the school principal called the boy into his office and told him that his father had died on the grounds of Naples because a pig had fallen on him from above.

Jerome asked the school principal about the pig’s condition. Later, the principal told his colleagues that Jerome was a stale boy. However, this was not the case, as the 9-year-old wanted only to mentally imagine the moment of his father’s death. Jerome’s aunt often told her acquaintances the story of his father’s death.

As the years passed. Jerome became a certified public accountant and came up with two stories of his father’s death with the same ending. One of these stories was long and the other was short. After some time growing up, Jerome was about to marry his girlfriend, Sally. He was afraid to tell her the story of his own father’s death because he thought she would laugh. However, when the couple went to Jerome’s aunt’s house, Sally expressed deep sympathy.