The Piazza Tales

The book that I read was The Piazza Tales. These tales were six short stories that consisted of The Piazza,Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightening-rod Man, The Encantadas, and The Bell Tower. These six short stories were all around the same type of book. They all have some tradgey. In Bartleby, the narrator gets used to Bartleby being around him and in the end he dies in a prison because he would “Prefer not to.” All of the shot stories also have a love hate relationship in it. In The Piazza the narrator loves piazzas so much that he builds one on his house. He hates the house for two reasons, one because it dosen’t have a piazza and two the house dosen’t n allow for the piazza to go all the way around the house. The Narrator also loves the view from the house because he can see Charlemagne from the north side of the house, he can see the long camp of the Hearth Stone Hills, fading far away twords Quito, and every fall, a small white flake of something peering suddenly, of a coolish morning, from the top most cliff, from the east side of the house, from the south side there are

apple trees, to see the white-budded orchard on a balmy morning i

In The Piazza the narrator builds a winter piazza facing twords the North, so he can paint Charlemagne and he sees a shiny thing on the mountain side. He travels to this shiny thing on the mountain side, thinking that it is a fairyland, and when he gets there it isnt fairyland. When he starts painting, the bright spot on the mountain starts to move a lot and he thinks it is faries. He thinks this because he is reading A Mid-Summers Night Dream by Shakespeare. After a year he decides that it is tome to figure out what that dancing spot on the mountain is. When he gets there he is dissapointed that it is not fariyland, buthe finds a beautiful woman sitting all alone in a house sewing. When he is talking to the woman, she told him that she wanted to know who lives in such an elegant house down on the base of the mountain. When looking at the house he saw that it was his own house and he didn’t think that it was so elegant.

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