Whoever Is There, Come On Through By Colin Barrett

The short story “Whoever Is There, Come on Through” effectively conveys the importance of human connections both in real life and in good literature. I believe that being able to connect with a character is an important facet of the story to a reader, which makes it more relatable and enjoyable. This story was written recently, in January of 2018, which means that the author should fall in more with the most recent authors that we have read, trying to portray the people around him, like Bobbie Ann Mason, and trying to understand them, like the characters in “Sonny’s Blues”. Like Bobbie Ann Mason, Colin Barrett is portraying people that he has most likely interacted with before, people with mental illnesses or suffering from a bad stroke of luck in life, and like Mason it is his job to portray them successfully, without judgement and with appreciation. …show more content…
Again there is that sense of human connection, no longer just between characters in the literary world, or between people in the real world, but bridging across the gap connecting story characters to real people and vice versa. Although the purpose of Colin Barrett’s story may be more reflective of a modern writer, his stylistic choices reflect those of a different time. As mentioned before, Barrett utilizes the techniques as explained in the commentaries by Hemingway and Maupassant. Interestingly enough, Bobbie Ann Mason also carried influences from Hemingway’s style in her writing. This shows how even the short story has developed over time, stylistic choices developed by the great short story writers of the past will always be an influence which we can refer too when discussing newer