... ." (Beverley Farmer) There are a variety of different form and narrative structures in the short stories, "Trees Can Speak", "The Persimmon Tree" and "A Double Because its Snowing." All of these are modernist stories with a one sided perspective of reality. The stories also tend to have a prescence of the unsaid in their narration, which make the stories very powerful. We definintely see this idea of Beverley Farmer in ... souls, here to comfort us." 5 This is interesting because all throughout the story, the myserious man comforts the narrator and even saves him at the end, by giving hi...

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