California's Tale
For me it is a very interesting short story, because the setting of these one is quite different to the ones I'm used to read; the way the story begins is also unusual, because it doesn't really have an exposition of events it goes directly to the inciting incidents.
In this story I got a little bit confused, because there is an outsider narrator and he doesn’t know all the information until the end of the story, and in this part I got disappointed, because I didn’t expected Henry’s wife to be dead.
It is a great story and there are some values in it, but in my opinion the most important is about friendship, because Joe, Tom, and Charley had been helping Henry throughout 19 years. Friendship doesn’t spring up of time, it’s from the heart.