Christmas, Context, and Commentaries
The furnace begins to groan and rattle. A billow of ugly black smoke emerges from the heat register. The Old Man (Ralphie’s father) declares: “It’s a clinker! That blasted stupid furnace dadgummit!” Ralphie narrates: “In the heat of battle, my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that, as far as […]
