Name: Running the Table
Author: Frank Conroy

Synopsis: After hearing what the real meaning of the story was, I realized my understand was very irrelevant. After I finished reading this story I thought that it was about a childhood memory that he had along with a great experience in the time of its occurrence. The way Conroy described how he felt as he progressed and all the time he had put in to practicing new things he had learned. It turns out, this story was actually about his troubles in school and at home, and by using the game of pool in compensation while describing the precision and tranquility of the pool, it was relevant to the real world outside as he seen it.