In the 1918 Pulitzer Prize-winning short story Roger Gale a widower grapples with the way his kids and grandkids react to the social changes. The narrative of His Family centres on a sixty-year-old New Yorker who considers the lives of his three children. The father recognises aspects of himself in each of the three sorts of women—one is a mother another is committed to social movements and the third has a carefree and joyful life.