Snow (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ann Beattie
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Plot: Neorealist
- Time of Work: The late 1970's or early 1980's
- Setting: The countryside in an East Coast state
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Her former lover, Allen, His unnamed wife
- Genres: Short fiction, Neorealist fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, United States or Americans, Memory, Love or romance, Rural or country life, 1980’s, Women, Snow
- Locales: East (U.S.)
The Story
The unnamed narrator relates her story as if she is speaking to her former lover about the time they shared together. She recalls details and events from the winter that they lived in the country, providing information in short vignettes, much as if she were paging through an old photo album, occasionally pausing to describe the scenes it contains. She recalls a chipmunk that once entered the house on a load of firewood and ran for the door, and she remembers when they first moved furniture into the house and accidentally scraped a wall, revealing old layers of...
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