The Grave | Themes and Characters
Porter succeeds in creating vivid portraits of real people, and she excels both in revealing her characters' emotions and in evoking the emotions of readers. The heroine of "The Grave" is Miranda, who some critics consider to be representative of Porter. Miranda is telling the story as an adult woman, but remembering back to a time when she was nine years old, a time when she was on the brink of womanhood and ripe to learn about the life-giving capabilities of her body. Though the climax of her transformation takes place that day in the open graves, the lesson Miranda learns in the...
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