Comparing Kate Chopin’s The Storm and T. Coraghessan Boyle’s Greasy Lak

Comparing Kate Chopins The Storm and T. Coraghessan Boyles oleaginous Lake Kate Chopin and T. Coraghessan Boyle made excellent use of the elements loony toons of view, display case, and setting in their brusk stories The Storm and Greasy Lake. Kate Chopins characters and events follow the settingthe storm. This greatly enhances her work. Boyles characters mirror his setting as wella greasy lake. It is amazing how much greater depth and deeper the insight is for a horizontal surface when the potentials of elements of indite are fulfilled and utilized. Chopins The Storm is written in third-person impersonal point of view. The narrator is not involved with the characters in any way, estimable telling the story as it happened. The narrator is too omniscient which makes the point of view a normal, usual telling of the story. Chopin uses this to emphasize the uniqueness of her setting. It is also interesting to know how characters feel that the reader hasnt even been introduced to hitherto in the story. Clarisse, Alcee Laballieres wife was not even in the primary(prenominal) events of the story and yet we know that their intimate conjugal life was something which she was more(prenominal) than willing to forego for a while (Chopin 116). Boyles short story Greasy Lake is written fro the point of view of the main character of the story. This is crucial because the reader needs to feel the fear and see the murkiness of the lake finished the eyes of a participant in the story. I suddenly felt a rush of joy and vindication the son of a gripe was alive Just as quickly, my bowels turned to ice (Boyle 133). Calixta is the main character in Chopins The Storm. Calixta is a fairly flat character who plays a static role in... ...X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. Literature An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 8th Ed., edited by Joseph Terry. bleak York Longman, 2002.Chopin, Kate. The Storm. Eds. X. J. Ken nedy and Dana Gioia. Literature An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 8th Ed., edited by Joseph Terry. brisk York Longman, Cutter, Martha J. The Search for a Feminine Voice in the Works of Kate Chopin. restless Tongue Identity and Voice in American Womens Writing, 1850-1930, pp. 87-109. disseminated sclerosis University Press of Mississippi, 1999.Hennessy, Denis. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 218 American Short-Story Writers Since World state of war II, Second Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Patrick Meanor, State University of New York at Oneonta, and Gwen Crane, State University of New York at Oneonta. Gale Group, 1999. pp. 70-77.