The Accidental Tourist

Summary:

Macon Leary, who wrote the guidebooks for people forced to travel on business. He just lost his son Ethan for a few years. His wife, Sarah Leary can’t bare him, because their son’s dead didn’t seem to him. Macon just went on his same old way like before. So Sarah decided to separate and then divorce with him. After they separated, they missed each other. Macon needed to do all things by himself, and he moved to live with his own family after he broke his leg. Before that, Macon met a dog trainer, Muriel Pritchett to take care of his dog Edward when he went on a trip for work. Macon didn’t accept her at the beginning, but Muriel chat with him when they trained Edward. Then they lived together with Muriel’s son Alexander. After that, Macon’s boss Julian Edge proposed to Macon’s sister Rose Leary, and they married soon. One day Macon got a phone call from his wife Sarah, she needed to move back into their home for a little while. He said yes to her and left Muriel, moved back into their home. Macon went on his trip to Paris few weeks later. He found Muriel was on the flight, too. Macon kept her away from him because he don’t want Sarah misunderstand him. But his back ached, Rose called Sarah to finish his work in Paris and took care of him. At the end, Macon left Sarah.

Reflection:

This is a love story. At the beginning, I thought it was bored. But after I read few chapters, I changed my mind. It is a story that you need to feel the emotions when Macon did everything. Then you can realize why he stayed with Muriel and go back to Sarah later. I think Macon just needed to find a place and a person which can warm his heart. He can’t walk through his son’s dead, so he went on his old way to pretend himself was fine, until Muriel came into his life. But he miss Sarah, he can’t find what wrong is it. So he went back to live with her, then he found he was wrong. At the end, he thought all night and decided to leave. After all, he needs to choose one way to go. I like the story and I took my time to finish it. But I don’t like the way that Macon deals with the problem between them. That hurt two women’ hearts perhaps hurt him either. I like the way that the author describes the story. The words are soft and warm, that everything feels nice under the author’s pen.