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A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts the point of view in Margaret Atwood’s Death by Landscape and Richard Ford’s Great Falls. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and the bitter reality of dysfunctional events in the past that have led to a life of struggle, albeit hidden and subversive. These two stories are quite different but offer
points of view that urge the reader to examine the consequences of ones actions, or inactions. The following paper compares and contrasts the points of view in Atwood and Fords
stories. Point of View: Atwood and Ford In Atwoods story the setting and the point of view begin with the narrator illustrating the condition in which a woman
now lives: "Now that the boys are grown up and Rob is dead, Lois has moved to a condominium apartment in one of the newer waterfront developments" (Atwood 99). Although
it is a waterfront property, and thus denotes a sense of nature, the following lines clearly illustrate how this woman is happy to be in a position where she does
not have to deal with any form of nature: "She is relieved not to have to worry about the lawn, or about the ivy pushing its muscular little suckers into
the brickwork, or the squirrels gnawing their way into the attic and eating the insulation off the wiring" (Atwood 99). As the story unwinds the reader sees that in
her youth she experienced the suicide of a friend in the woods while camping. The body was never found and this woman, Lois, was never quite the same. At the
end of the story the reader sees how she has surrounded herself with landscape paintings and how she realizes that there has always been a side of herself that never
lived after that fateful day, as though she had always distanced herself from life itself, unable to remember events such as her boys as infants. Fords story is narrated
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