![]() Fred seems so ideal to their young minds. Betty is part of “Betty and Fred” the couple who live next door at the cottages where her family is spending the summer, and the girl and her sister are a bit taken with Fred, but it is Betty who makes them welcomed and treats them well. Atwood seldom left me with that feeling in this collection, although I admit to loving some of the stories and feeling a little confused about others.īetty Almost a coming of age tale, with the adolescent narrator who doesn’t quite understand the world of the grown-ups that she observes. ![]() ![]() They seem too often to leave me feeling as if there is more to the story if only the author had had the time and pages to flesh it out. I’m not generally a fan of short stories. ![]() Margaret Atwood does that like it is a science. ![]() You have very little space you have to create viable, breathing characters in paragraphs instead of chapters you have to weigh every word and know that it is essential or it must go and you must convey something important, an idea, a thought, that lasts or has impact. Writing effective short stories is probably more difficult than writing effective novels. ![]()
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