... build, he thought - blunt, tidy, gruffly respectable, and offering no affront to the world, though at the same time inviting nobody. It sat back fifty yards from the road on three acres of alfalfa, strawberries, raspberries, and orderly vegetable gardens- (Guterson, 69). This description of Carl Heine's home, realistic as most physical descriptions exist, has a more cavernous meaning than simply a layout ... . Many perspectives are possible in interpretation of the piece: for example, interpretation as a romance versus a mystery. Credited with instigating the versatility of the novel are...

• Word Count: 950
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

... unidentified narrator somewhat haphazardly sets the story beginning in the relative present and frequently jumping back to points in the past past, relating the previous and present interactions between the three freakish main characters: the androgynous Miss Amelia, the manipulative hunchback Cousin Lymon, and the evil criminal Marvin Macy. McCullers' usage of social outcasts and her emphasis on their physical handicaps ... the narrator's digressions on various topics. The distortion of the characters and the narrator that McCullers uses in her story elucidate their emotional defects, ...

• Word Count: 426
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Graduate