Argumentative Essay on Short Stories

Argumentative Essay on Short Stories

Introduction

The short story Death in the Woods is penned down by Sherwood Anderson in the year of 1933. This is called the last book of Sherwood which was published by Boni & Liveright before the firm faced financial fall down. The anonymous narrator of Death in the Woods comes out only as a brief character in the story. On the other hand, the story of “The Baby in the Icebox” is taken from the desk of James M. Cain, who explains the relationship in marriage and its connection with animals in his fiction.

Discussion Analysis

The narrator, chief teller of the story is a growing boy in the town of Mrs. Grimes lived. Although he did not know that lady personally but deeply describes her life's fact till her death. He observes different information that he was getting from his surroundings as well as telling some experiences as a direct source, especially at the time of discovering the body of woman in woods. It should be observed that Mrs. Grimes stays silent in the entire story and we constantly awake with the voice of narrator that is contiguous, colloquial and conversational. The argument raises that why Mrs. Grimes took help of the narrator for explaining her story? If we emphasize over his narrative style, he constantly present his own references and the role of his own memory. In the end of the story, we find our self in a crucial state. Though we have learned few realistic facts about his life, but we also know that the narrator is more intimate than the subject of his fable which circles around Mrs. Grimes. Though he never met the lady when she was alive, the scene of her corpse left a severe and eternal effect on ...