A Shocking Accident is a short story written by Graham Greene.
The story is about Jerome, when he was nine-years-old his father died. Jerome worshiped his dad, he admired him a lot and liked to imagine him being a secret agent, although he was an author Jerome heard about it when he was at school, his headmaster Mr. Wordsworth told about it. His father died when he was in Naples; he was walking to the Hydrographic Museum and suddenly a pig fell on him. During the next few years Jerome thinks about the death of his father, especially the way he died and they way he explains it to different people. When he is about to marry Sally he is worried because he hasn’t told her the way his father died.
The school Jerome went to seemed a little bit cruel, but probably the main reason of the cruelty and harshness wast to give the boys a disciplined education environment and in hope that they would behave well and properly when they were older. When it’s told that Jerome is about to get married the reader finds out that he hasn’t told Sally about the way his father died. This pretty much means that Jerome is a little scared of Sally’s reaction. He has told different people the way his father died, and people often have responded in a comical way. But when Sally finally finds out and is shocked Jerome is relieved and happy. It really meant a lot to him that Sally didn’t laugh, because Jerome’s love towards his dad was really strong and it would’ve made him upset if Sally had laughed.
I think the pig died after falling on Jerome’s dad, but I think it died on the scene of the accident and it didn’t suffer a painful and a long death. Also I think it was probably eaten afterwards by the pigs owner.