Annie Proulx

“The Night Face Up” The third-person narrator had just been in a motorcycling accident and was rushed to the hospital thereafter to treat his injuries, but is kept in a ward with the other patients and develops a hospital phobia based on the description and interpretations of the smells and the treatment itself. He eventually dreams himself in a different time period of himself as part of the Motecas fighting against the Aztecs. It is implied where he may have died of a fever while being…

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The short story, Brokeback Mountain written by Annie Proulx, begins in the summer of 1963. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist get paired together that summer to herd sheep on Brokeback Mountain. Ennis Del Mar is the main character and narrates the book. Ennis describes him and Jack as, "high school dropout country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered, rough-spoken, inured to the stoic life." (Proulx 3) One night on the mountain their relationship led to…

What does the word Love mean? Is it a feeling, or an action? Is there more than one kind of love? In the short story created by Annie Proulx, the overall category of it could be described as a love story. The story is about two people who take a job and work together over the summer. The two people who at first start as just friends end up falling in love and having sexual a sexual relationship throughout their summer together. The two end up going their own different ways because despite their…

The most significant scene in Chapters 29-34 of The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx, is when Quoyle visits the house on Quoyle’s point to pick up some things and immediately after goes to see his cousin Nolan; this scene develops theme in a symbolic, lyrical way as Quoyle faces up to how much his past has been affecting him, as well as his need to stop dwelling on the past. The scene is found on pages 263-265 of the novel. The scene develops the themes of change and moving forward, highlighting…

its history, its culture to its industry. Proulx, originally from New England, had fully immersed herself in her research for The Shipping News, visiting Newfoundland several times, “talking to residents and absorbing the atmosphere” all while studying its history and dialect (Contextual Encylopedia of American Literature 1335). Her desire for accuracy had no limit, exemplified by her drawing of character names from the telephone directories. Still, Proulx became an award-winning author, not…

Proulx gives very little detail. She doesn’t describe what they are wearing or what everyone looks like. Proulx never describes any of their facial expressions or what they look like after a tragedy has occurred or their feelings towards it. Oates goes into much greater detail giving every detail she can, to what everyone is wearing to what the narrator is feeling for each of the girls in the story. The writing styles between Proulx and Oates in these two stories can…

terrible death of his cheating wife. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, follows Quoyle’s life-journey of him searching and attempting for a new beginning in Newfoundland. The novel is a New York Time bestseller, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award. Although, in my opinion the plot of the story could be considered simple and unimaginative. What made it such a success was the literature. The fashion in which Annie Proulx wrote, consisted of a lack of regard of proper sentence…

The grittingly realistic novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the short story “The Half-skinned Steer” by Annie Proulx, take place in a harsh natural setting. These tales both vary in their theme and concepts. They also vary in many aspects, ranging from tone to symbols.Though these stories are different, they share commonalities in themes. Both Proulx and O'Brien use their pieces of literature to teach lessons or even show their personal perspectives. One of the themes present in…

Miles to the Gas Pump” by Annie Proulx and “The Cranes” by Peter Meinke are both “remarkably short stories” because their “plots aren’t long, [but] they are intriguing because they engage the characters in conflicts that are crucial to them and will likely matter to you” (Atwood, 620). . Proulx and Meinke’s stories both fulfil Barth’s description of minimalist fiction and suggest that “less is more” by using simplicity and symbolism and irony. The simplicity that Proulx and Meinke use in “55…