Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Style
Structure
The fifteen essays or chapters of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek are organized into two parallel structures. The more obvious structure follows the calendar year from January, in the chapters ‘‘Heaven and Earth in Jest’’ and ‘‘Seeing,’’ through spring, summer, and autumn to December 21 in the last chapter, ‘‘The Waters of Separation.’’ The book is meant to resemble a polished journal that the narrator kept of her observations through one year, but in fact, the material was pulled together from twenty volumes of journals that...
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