Overview
The Head of the Family is a comic story in W. W.
This title is catalogued in Art & Aesthetics. Its reading profile is Medium and Moderate, with themes including humor, self development, emotion, social questions, beauty.
One-Page Summary
The Head of the Family is a comic story in W. W. Jacobs’s tradition of family authority, pride, and domestic misunderstanding. The phrase “head of the family” sounds respectable until the responsibilities attached to it become inconvenient. Jacobs often builds comedy around men who believe they should control a household and then discover that the people living with them have their own plans, loyalties, and ability to resist. The result is a chain of small conflicts over money, marriage, discipline, or reputation. The humor works because nobody thinks they are being absurd.
Each character believes their own behavior is perfectly reasonable. That gap between self-perception and reality is Jacobs’s specialty.
Key Themes
Humor: This title is tagged with humor as one of its main themes.
Self development: This title is tagged with self development as one of its main themes.
Emotion: This title is tagged with emotion as one of its main themes.
Social questions: This title is tagged with social questions as one of its main themes.
Beauty: This title is tagged with beauty as one of its main themes.