Perfect Intentions A wise man once said “There are no perfect people in the world, just perfect intentions.” This statement exemplifies Pearl Tull. Pearl is the centerpiece of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant; a novel which tells the story of her life through the eyes of the people she loved most, her children. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, by Anne Tyler, is a bittersweet novel which demonstrates how one mother’s perfect intentions became just …showed first 75 words of 1682 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1682 total…only true family reunion that occurred was based on Pearl’s funeral. Pearl had always imagined that she deserved an easier life, a more fruitful life, yet what she had never imagined was that she would be the one to cost herself the life she had always thought she deserved. Pearls attempts to create the perfect family were not destroyed by her children, but by perhaps the most unseen of criminal in her eyes, herself.