The Ceiling By Kevin Brockmeier

Brockmeier reveals that marriage usually leads to or ends in disaster specifically all marriages are doomed to fail from the start.

The ceiling by kevin brockmeier. It would appear at sunset when the air was dimming to purple as a faint granular blur a certain filminess at the high point of the sky and would remain there through the night. In kevin brockmeier s the ceiling this black ceiling in the sky is symbolic of the protagonist s failing marriage with his wife. As a man s marriage begins to deteriorate an overhanging object in the sky slowly starts to descend onto the their town.

He is the recipient of an o. It s a story of a weird object that appears in the sky growing ever closer to earth. Henry award the nelson algren award and a national endowment.

His stories have been featured in the new yorker mcsweeny s crazyhorse and the georgia review. Henry award winning the ceiling a man s marriage begins to disintegrate after the sky starts slowly descending. In fact brockmeier criticizes the belief of marriage in his literary work.

It blotted out the light of passing stars and seemed to travel across the face of the moon but it did not move. A prevalent theme that surrounds the text is the idea of love or lack of it which leads to separation or feelings of detachment. Born and raised in little rock arkansas brockmeier received his mfa from the iowa writer s workshop in 1997.

In kevin brockmeier s short story the ceiling brockmeier implies that marriage is not necessary in our society. Within a week the object in the night sky had grown perceptibly larger.