It’s a pity that the woman dies in a snowy clearing, surrounded by the dogs. Her death scene reminded me of Jack London’s “To Build a Fire.”
The story is well developed. It develops as the narrator remembers things he experienced in his boyhood and adulthood. The combination of the fragments of memories builds the coherent story.
The ending summarizes the whole story well. Without it, the reader would think the story is not real. When his brother told the story, the narrator “did not think he got the point.” The point is “A thing so complete has its own beauty.” The woman fed “the animal life before she was born, as a child, as a young woman working on the farm of the German, after she married, when she grew old, and when she died.” The ending makes the story sound real and moves the reader. This is a skillful way of writing a story.
The story is well developed. It develops as the narrator remembers things he experienced in his boyhood and adulthood. The combination of the fragments of memories builds the coherent story.
The ending summarizes the whole story well. Without it, the reader would think the story is not real. When his brother told the story, the narrator “did not think he got the point.” The point is “A thing so complete has its own beauty.” The woman fed “the animal life before she was born, as a child, as a young woman working on the farm of the German, after she married, when she grew old, and when she died.” The ending makes the story sound real and moves the reader. This is a skillful way of writing a story.
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