Comparison And Constrast Between Characters And Characterization In "Telling Stories" And "You Were Perfectly Fine"
The characters in a story are the ones who develop the plotline. Moreover, it becomes truly coherent when a significant relationship between the characters and the events is clearly established. In this essay, I shall analyse the characters of “You Were Perfectly Fine,” by Dorothy Parker, and “Telling Stories,” by Maeve Binchy. I will begin with a brief commentary on the background of each author. Subsequently, I shall focus on a comparison and contrast of their method of characterization.
On the one hand, Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) was an American writer and poet, and was “…best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.” In her stories, she analyzed the social mores or intellectual middle-class people, in particular New Yorkers, specializing in bitterly cynical portrayals of unhappy love affairs. Maeve Binchy (1940), on the other hand, is an Irish novelist, newspaper columnist and speaker. Her books usually deal with......
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