To Build A Fire, The Fish And The Story Of An Hour
“I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction”, Christopher Rice. In the quote Rice is trying to tell us realism isn't always affiliated with fiction but within these collection of stories we explore and enhance the use of realistic techniques that develop and emphasize the themes in fictional narratives. In “To Build A Fire”, “The Fish”, and “The Story Of An Hour” and in the entire collection age of realism, realistic techniques are used to present and emphasize the themes. In “To Build a Fire”, the man exhibits pride throughout the text using vivid descriptions and realistic settings. On line 21 it states, “He remembered the advice of the old-timer on Sulphur Creek, and smiled. The old-timer had been very serious
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In lines 10 and 11 it states, “he was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will – as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" , the concept of freedom seems to take over Mrs. Mallard's body. She's "powerless" to stop the feeling of freedom from "possessing her” and the days ahead that will belong just to Mrs. Mallard seem almost too many to count. It's as if she can't even hold in all the excitement for those days where she can do whatever she wants. Then the woman exhibits mortality using realistic fiction and situational/dramatic irony. In line 13 it states, “ She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead”, Mrs. Mallard is putting aside the larger grief that her husband's death has caused because she understands that she'll cry when she sees his body. This makes it sound like she's trying to concentrate on freedom and other ideas that will distract her from her
In lines 10 and 11 it states, “he was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will – as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" , the concept of freedom seems to take over Mrs. Mallard's body. She's "powerless" to stop the feeling of freedom from "possessing her” and the days ahead that will belong just to Mrs. Mallard seem almost too many to count. It's as if she can't even hold in all the excitement for those days where she can do whatever she wants. Then the woman exhibits mortality using realistic fiction and situational/dramatic irony. In line 13 it states, “ She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead”, Mrs. Mallard is putting aside the larger grief that her husband's death has caused because she understands that she'll cry when she sees his body. This makes it sound like she's trying to concentrate on freedom and other ideas that will distract her from her