Blackberry Winter | Techniques
Warren's story is presented in a traditional realistic mode of first-person narration. However, the story, which seems, on first reading, to depend on the creation of mood and atmosphere, is carefully constructed around motifs of change and mutability: the sudden alteration in the season, the drowning of the chicks and the cows, the unexplained appearance of the tramp, and the unexpected sickness of Dellie. In contrast to these metaphors for change, aging, and death, the narrator also describes elements of stability in his world: his mother's fearless reaction to the tramp; his father's...
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