When We Talk About Anne Frank By Nathan Englander: A Literary Analysis

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It is no secret that some stories are very similar to each other in plot and theme. “What we talk about when we talk about love”, written by Raymond Carver, and “What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank”, written by Nathan Englander, is no exception. While these two stories are similar, they both have differences. In order to find these similarities and differences, we need to look at the plots of the stories and the characters involved with their respective stories. This is going to be done by first laying out the plots for each story and the characters in it, then talk about how the two stories are similar and lastly, talk about how the stories differ from each other. Beginning with “What we talk about when we talk about love”, we

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