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A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares 2 stories by Sinclair Ross. Ross’s short stories capture life on the Canadian prairie during the early decades of the twentieth century. Ross’s short stories “The Outlaw” and “A Field of Wheat” share similarities of style and context, but they also offer very different perspectives on prairie life in terms of plot. No additional sources cited and the bibliographical references are incomplete.
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Field of Wheat" share similarities of style and context, but they also offer very different perspectives on prairie life in terms of plot. Similarities include the fact that Ross endows
aspects of nature in both stories with human qualities, which is a stylistic feature that makes these natural elements function as an additional character in each narrative. However, there are
also marked differences, as "The Outlaw" is a poignant and nostalgic look at a defining event in adolescence while "A Field of Wheat" is a tale that offers readers an
equally poignant tale of prairie life, but which is the narrative of a disaster rather than milestone event in a boys life. In "The Outlaw," the first character introduced
is Isabel, a beautiful and spirit mare that fascinates the thirteen-year-old protagonist. The reader learns immediately that Isabel "was beautiful but dangerous," as she had already "thrown one man and
killed him, thrown another and broken his collar bone" (Ross "The Outlaw" 24). Isabel is very much the featured character in this story due to the way in which the
young protagonist perceives her, which is partly as an untamed natural force and partly as a female seductress who tantalizes him into riding her. The lyrical way in which
Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on which her family depends with strength
of character that human-like in its resolve to elude their wishes. Martha describes the wheat as "invincible" (Ross "A Field of Wheat" 74). The wheat and nature in general are
pictured as irresistible forces that have been merciless in their torment of herself and her husband, John, who labors endlessly, but unsuccessfully, to get ahead. In both stories, the characterization
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