Conway’s theory has four components: specific episodic events, general events, lifetime periods, and the working self. Together, these four parts sum up a person’s memories of his/her own life. These aspects of autobiographical memory are present in the method that the narrator uses to tell his story. He categorizes “how healthy [his] mind is” (Poe 64) as a lifetime period, utilizes the death of the old man as one of the general events that has occurred during that period, and describes specific episodic scenes from the old man’s murder. Although these three aspects of the theory are adequately covered in the narrator’s method of storytelling, there is still a question of how the working self plays a role in the narrator’s
Conway’s theory has four components: specific episodic events, general events, lifetime periods, and the working self. Together, these four parts sum up a person’s memories of his/her own life. These aspects of autobiographical memory are present in the method that the narrator uses to tell his story. He categorizes “how healthy [his] mind is” (Poe 64) as a lifetime period, utilizes the death of the old man as one of the general events that has occurred during that period, and describes specific episodic scenes from the old man’s murder. Although these three aspects of the theory are adequately covered in the narrator’s method of storytelling, there is still a question of how the working self plays a role in the narrator’s