In Don bailey’s "A FEW NOTES FOR ORPHEUS, Jack who is the protagonist in this story shows his thoughts on objects such as statues and telephones to produce an image of his beliefs . As the story progresses Jack begins to appreciate the value of a close family, which he lacked all his life. As the story starts Jack shows his dislike for statues because "Statues were the way other people made you stand still. …showed first 75 words of 363 total…

…showed last 75 words of 363 total…d drunk it the weekend before with some girl from Baltimore who was in Toronto for a hairdressers’ convention". In conclusion Don Bailey’s: a few notes for Orpheus was written to show that spending time with family has the highest priority in life. In the story Jack is ignoring his young daughter in the same way his father neglected him. It required something as extreme as Jack’s father dying to unite this family.