The Grave (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Katherine Anne Porter
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1903 and about 1923
- Setting: A Texas farm and a foreign city
- Principal Characters: Miranda, Paul
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Children, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, West, U.S., Hunting or hunters, Texas, Tombs or graves, Rings, Cemeteries, Rabbits
- Locales: Texas
The Story
The corpse of Miranda and Paul's grandfather has been exhumed three times since his death in about 1870. Twice it was removed by their possessive grandmother and reburied, first in Louisiana and then on her farm in Texas. After the grandmother's death, the land where the burial ground lies is sold, and the grandfather—along with the other occupants of the family cemetery—is removed by his descendants to a public cemetery to lie beside his widow for eternity.
One day following the last exhumation, Miranda, nine years of age, and Paul, who is twelve years...
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