“It takes both sides to build a bridge” - Fredrik Nael. That message can be applied to both stories, The Interlopers and Mending Wall, because they both use some kind of teamwork. The poem, Mending Wall, is about two men who come together once a year to mend the stone wall that separates them. The short story The Interlopers is about two men, Georg and Ulrich, who start off enemies but become friends. Frost uses extended metaphor of the wall to depict separation among mankind, and Saki shows how foolish separation is when it exists among mankind through his use of characterization. Through both of the pieces, both Saki and Frost convey that teamwork is more important than separation. The mending wall is a poem about two men who come together
