Analysis Of The Pilgrim At Tinker Creek By Annie Dillard

Dillard In-Class Write Annie Dillard includes two major analogies in her text, “The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” including the penny game she used to play as a child and the gaps that house the spirits. Dillard uses the penny game not to disappoint strangers with a mere penny but rather to “cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity,” showing the importance of little things that can make your day. (Dillard 22) Dillard also uses the gaps as well to emphasize the importance of little things, concluding that one can “discover itself for the first time like a once-blind man unbound,” in these gaps. (Dillard 258) Although seemingly dissimilar, these two analogies that Dillard use both relate to the same meaning of spending the time and resources that you have from the little things in life and appreciating what you are given. …show more content…
The pennies are not used in just the literal sense but also in the figurative sense that, “the world is fairly strudden and strewn with pennies cast broadside…” (Dillard 22). With this, Dillard is expressing that the pennies were not used for the monetary value as much as they were used for the figurative value of the importance of the little things that the universe is full of. Although pennies often get cast aside, similar to the little things in life getting overlooked, Dillard brings life to the fact that regardless of its monetary value, it has value in other