UNEASY HOMECOMING - WILL F JENKINS - summary

8.  UNEASY HOMECOMING - WILL F JENKINS

SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

“Uneasy Homecoming” by Will F Jenkins is a short story that has the effect of a particularly tense atmosphere. Will F Jenkins is a very popular writer of thrillers, short stories and science fiction. In this story, the author successfully creates the atmosphere of vague restlessness and fear which lands the reader in a world of suspense. This story is about a woman named Connie returning to an empty house after a two-week holiday.
CONTENT:
Connie returning to house after a two-week holiday and she was alone, as her husband will not be home until midnight. She feels a strong feeling of uneasiness which never really subsides throughout the story.  Her house was the only one that had been built on the other side of the bay. Connie was alone, far from any other houses, which means that there was nobody close to her if she needed any help.
When she arrives home she had developed a nervous feeling. It continued while she heard the taxi moving away and purring down the road. When she arrived it was dusk and she could hear the noise of birds and the insects. Then she turned on the refrigerator and switched on all the lights of the rooms so that she could get rid of the uneasy feeling.
Connie moved around the house and checked it but failed to look at the motorcycle which was leaning in the garage and the Pantry window. To fell better she calls Mrs. Winston who was elderly woman, she tells Connie about the series of burglaries in the town and requests her to come to her house along with her son ‘Charlie’, for which Connie refuses as she don’t like Charlie.
After talking to Mrs. Winston, Connie takes her suitcase and goes upstairs to her bed room. She finds out that her house is being used as a safe house by criminals to keep their stolen goods. When she finds this out her uneasiness builds to fear and so when she escapes into the garage the reader is relieved. She manages to sets fire to the burglar’s motorbike, which is the key incident. The burglar comes running out of the house and gets caught by the authorities.
Conclusion
Throughout the “Uneasy Homecoming” the main character played a very important part in creating a tense atmosphere. The main character, Connie, developed a sense of fear about man hunting women. In this short story the author had beautifully described how Connie had used her quick wit and safe guard herself from the burglar.