Fish | Carol Ullmann
Carol Ullmann
Ullmann is a freelance writer and editor. In the following essay, Ullmann examines the function of memory in Mccorkle's short story.
Mccorkle's short story "Fish" is something of a memoir, capturing for the reader particular events in the lives of the narrator and her dying father. While the narrator's theme is resurrection, her method is memory. The sequence of memories is not strictly chronological, and this story does not pretend to be the narrator's autobiography. Autobiographies tend to be more committed to...
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