A Map of Tripoli, 1967 | Senseladen Prose
In this
essay, Sanderson examines how Wetzel uses senseladen
prose to create a vivid setting for her short
story and to delineate the choice Carla must make
between her previous life and a new life.
From the first sentence of Marlene Reed Wetzel’s ‘‘A Map of Tripoli, 1967,’’ the setting of Carla’s crumbling marriage and concurrent romance with the exotic Mantini is firmly foreign. The tale opens with a symphony of street sounds: ‘‘horns and radios, bicycle bells, the voice of a rooster that the pots-and-pans man keeps as a pet. . . . the call to prayer from the Karamanli mosque hangs in the air.’’ This is a scene full of life and activity, echoed a few paragraphs down, when Carla’s first appearance in the story is heralded with colors and strong images:...
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