Children. They are interesting beings, aren't they? A lot of parents are conflicted when “building” a child. How do you affect your children? What building blocks do you use? Can you use your own building blocks without disrupting your own programming? In the short story "Getting sent for" we meet a mother, Mrs. Sharp, an underdog in denial, which clearly shows in her child, George Sharp.
We don’t know when or where the story takes place, but we can guess. An educated guess would put us in England in the 1970s. England because of the word choice; "delicate boy", pull up your trousers", "you may go now". The 1970s because in the context of the story, women don’t typically work.
The narrator unfolds the story from an omniscient 3rd person perspective. This gives great insight and depth to the story and character development. For instance, in the line “Her husband never liked her working.” (line 70-71). We sense that Mr. Sharp is an “old-fashioned” man, and Mrs. Sharp is concomitant with the modern lifestyle. But he still swings the belt. This shows that in this part the western world, they still appropriate the decrepit and practically deceased way of raising a child.
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