National Poetry Month #23

A gun? A bank robbery? A baseball game? A masterful handling of narrative time? That’s right, folks, you can find all of these and more in Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain.” Our protagonist, Anders, is a bit of a grump, but watch how Wolff develops his character. Check out the paragraph that starts “It is worth noting what Anders did not remember…” How does this section offer a “counterpoint” to Anders’s prior characterization in the story? How is his character “deepened” or made “complex”?

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