The Indian Uprising | Style
Barthelme’s story is set in a city during an unspecified modern period. The unnamed narrator is telling the story primarily in the past tense. To tell the story, the author uses a nonlinear and plotless narrative with unusual word choice and sentence structure.
Nonlinear Narrative
‘‘The Indian Uprising’’ does not read like a traditional story in which there are characters with relatively well-defined roles and backgrounds who appear in a linear or chronological plot with a definable beginning and end. The story’s lack of structure is echoed by the...
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