Fruit Lesson of Three Breasts
While the family was eating, the son suddenly asked his father how many kinds of breasts women have. In surprise, the father used watermelon, pear, and onion as metaphors, corresponding respectively to the changes at twenty, in the thirties and forties, and after fifty. The final line, "Looking at them will make you cry," pushed the joke to its climax. Centered on this classic family joke, the story expands the table conversation, the father's helpless explanation, and the family's reactions, full of the dark humor of everyday life.