Jane Gardam Comparison of Stone Trees and Pangs Of Love

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TWENTIETH-CENTURY PROSE - JANE GARDAM

STONE TREES AND PANGS OF LOVE

Jane Gardam makes use of an array of writing techniques and narrators when she writes her short stories. She displays to the reader, an impression of the unexpected, throughout her preference of language that gives reality to her characters. One of the ways in which Jane Gardam delves into the remarkable characteristics of every day people is the use of narrative voice, in first or third person. I am now going to scrutinize two pieces of her work, Stone Trees and Pangs of Love.

Stone Trees is written using a first person narrator, by means of this method she is proficient in conveying her own opinions and feelings to the reader. This is informative to the reader, so that they may grasp the way that she views her husband, her life and his when he was alive. The story commences with a journey to the Isle of Wight where the reader recognizes that the widow's husband had in recent times passed away. The widow appears grief stricken with insanity as she signifies her loss. A principal point in this story occurs with the