Life After High School By Joyce Carol Oates

In the short story, Life After High School, by Joyce Carol Oates takes place in the small town of South, Lebanon, New York in 1959. The story details the short life of Zachary Graff along with “Sunny” Burhman and Tobias Shanks, and follows them on an unusual high school experience which tragically ends with death. Life After High School is written in a third person limited point of view which creates a perspective to show what the characters feel, think, and act and also shows the emotion used by Oates to write a story about the conflicts of masking one's identity. Throughout the story we see the characters develop; Sunny Burhman is one of the developing characters. She is described as too sweet and kind, she has an “astonishing smile” implying