Anatomy of a story: Fernández Flórez's Father

In this article, after presenting a synopsis of the plot and discussing some criticisms about the writer, we comment on the highlights of his idiosyncratic style displayed in the story. We also analyze how Fernández Flórez traces the passage of the protagonist, his father, from the murky environment that surrounds him, towards the truth. The simple story of an office worker who tries to discover the reasons for her daughter's illness in order to save her becomes a dive into the inner world of the father who tries to break through a swarm of assumptions. The collapse of communication between Don Pedro and his daughter totally isolates the protagonist in such a way that the latter slips into an illusory world that he creates with a self-imposed mission that, in turn, provokes the suspense of how it will be accomplished. Finally. We study the strategies used by the author to delineate the protagonist's mental topography and achieve a cohesive textual structure with a narrative development that makes the story plausible, keeping the reader's attention until the end.