As we ease into Postmodern Fiction, starting off with the works of John Cheever, John Updike, and Raymond Carver, we are now beginning into the short works of fiction that are common today. The first thing I noticed about these works is how familiar they seemed, since I am an English major I have had many opportunities to read modern fiction, especially short stories such as these ones. Because of this familiarity, I was bound to be fond of the stories, just because of this familiar territory and the ease of reading them.
I believe that it was this familiarity and the ease of reading these stories that caused me to breeze through this unit and to particularly enjoy it, even if the stories themselves weren’t so exciting in plot to me. I couldn’t necessarily find connections between the stories themselves, proving each story to serve a different purpose for the reader than the other, but I am looking forward to discussing this unit with the class because these works do give us a lot to work with. In particular, fiction is one of my favorite subjects in literature to discuss (although I am not so good at writing it), so as I read, I enjoyed analyzing it to my best ability during a first read, and look forward to analyzing these works even more.
sydney poynter 