The Grave | Overview
"The Grave" is one of a series of Porter's stories that are biographical in nature and that feature a young girl named Miranda. "The Grave" is the last in the series, and it appears with other stories, collectively titled "The Old Order." The stories in "The Old Order" trace Miranda's growth from innocence to maturity, and they focus on the same characters and cover similar themes. "The Grave" begins in a family cemetery, amid the open graves, where the relatives of Miranda have been buried and exhumed, and it ends in a foreign marketplace twenty years later as Miranda looks back on the...
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