The Management of Grief | The Journey Structure in "The Management of Grief"
In the following essay, the author discusses the elements of the journey structure in "The Management of Grief."
Odysseus, the hero of Homer's Odyssey, travels for over ten years trying to get home to his family and his community. When, at the end of the book, he finds his way home, it is the end of a long journey that lasted many years and confronted Odysseus with myriad challenges and threats. In this classic example of a journey story, he and the men on his ship are tempted by beauty, captured by a Cyclops, and whirled around an angry and treacherous sea. All of this makes for a good story, but behind the narrative there lies a complex journey structure, a structure critics such as Joseph...
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