quite simple terms, that “A reliable narrator is one whose rendering of the story and commentary on it the reader is supposed to take as an authoritative account of the fictional truth.” In other words, a reliable narrator is a person who tells us a story in such a manner that the audience believes in the events that take place. “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” is the first story in Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson. In this story, the drug-addicted hitchhiking narrator is picked up by a Cherokee filled with
is a short story written by Kate Chopin in 1898. Taking place in the early 1900s, this beautifully constructed story centers on the theme of adultery. An unexpected storm of events unravels itself, as the two main characters, Calixta and her former lover, Alcee are taking shelter during a rain storm. All while her husband, Bobinot and son Bibi was taking refuge at a local store from the passing storm, Calixta and Alcee ends up making love before Calixta’s husband returns. Throughout the story, imagery
McInerney is a short story about a lonely male named Alex who went to Paris for a getaway, because of his breakup with his ex-girlfriend Lydia. Because of his loneliness he takes himself into a bar, and at the bar he encounters two people, Tasha and Frederic who gives him company for a while. The story takes place in the city of love, Paris. Alex gives us detailed descriptions about the weather in Paris. It is march and it’s pouring – people in the city are hurrying because of the raindrops “The pedestrians