COMPARISON OF STORIES

Comparison of I Used to Live Here Once (Jean Rhys) and A Father's Story (Andre Dubus)



Introduction

Jean Rhys

Ryhs born in Roseau, when Dominica was still a British colony, the daughter of Father Welsh mother and Creole roots but Scotland. At sixteen, she moved to England, where she worked in London as a chorus, without much success, to such an extent that she joins the Prison Holloway. In the 1920, she traveled to Europe where she worked as an artist bohemia, a period in which she lived temporarily in the capital of france. This time of her life, she was hit by poorness. However, it was during this period that she became familiar with modern art and literature, and when she became an alcoholic, a problem that remained throughout her life. Her experiences in the patriarchal society and feelings of being displaced influenced and formed part of some of her work and her difficult childhood, which ended up not being accepted by either society or the European Creole of her native island (Aubrey, Grey, 2007).

Most works dealing Rhys women who are displaced from their natural environments and left to the whim of companies with poor family values. She had a style which is mostly characterized by the mix of technical creative person sensibilities, along with own Caribbean society from which it came. The work she did got in print plus advertised among others by Ford Madox Ford. Diana Athill , published by André Deutsch, helped Ryhs previously to reach a wide audience after the loss of public favor, which she suffered. Athill was responsible for the publication of Wide Sargasso Sea, a work adapted to television by the BBC. During the last period of her life, she lived in London with a friend interpreter of British jazz, George Melly. She wrote a sarcastic love song for him with John Chilton, titled Life with you. Her writings and personal effects found in Mac Farlin Library of the University of Tulsa, Department of Special Collections and University archives (Aubrey, Grey, 2007).

The story is fictional narrative or report. It is precise, short; it is the time sequence of events in question. Story is a set that contains information and details on time and place, and characters and their actions. Scenes from a story's action is linked together the chain of causation stage. It shows how an event cause or contribute to the next. Plot is the novel's most crucial aspects, because we understand things we are the best proof of what causes them to become them (Bondeson, Jan, 2001).

Andre Dubus

Andre Dubus was born August 11, 1936 in Lake Charles (Louisiana), in a family Cajun-Irish Catholic. He said his three commitments in life were the Boston Red Sox, drinking beer and the Catholic Church. After completing his service in the Navy and graduated at the School of the famous Iowa Writers, he began a career as a professor of literature at a small college near Boston, a city where he lives and writes in ...