‘The Child Screams and Looks Back at You’ by Russell Banks: Short Story Analysis This story is set in the early 1960s in a small mill town in Central New Hampshire. ‘The Child Screams and Looks Back at You’ is a story about domestic violence, loneliness, guilt, forgiveness, and the duty adults have to bring up their children in a ‘healthy’ atmosphere. The style of this … [Read more...] about ‘The Child Screams and Looks Back at You’ by Russell Banks: Short Story Analysis