Death in the Woods | Summary
The narrator of ‘‘Death in the Woods’’ introduces the central character of the story: an anonymous old woman who periodically comes to town to sell a few eggs and buy a few supplies. The woman is known only by her last name, Grimes.
The story is the narrator’s fictionalized account of her life and death, focusing on one fateful trip into town.
The narrator recounts what he knows of Mrs. Grimes’s background, things that ‘‘must have stuck in my mind from small-town tales when I was a boy.’’ The old woman’s husband, Jake Grimes, was a known horse...
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