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The Situation and the Story
by Vivian Gornick
Gornick's classic on personal narrative: the situation is what happened, the story is what it means, and the narrator must be constructed. Short and essential.
Read it if…
you want to understand the narrator of your own essay.
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Skip it if…
you want prompts.
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Three things you will actually use
- Situation versus story.
- Construct the narrator.
- Find the wisdom, not the complaint.
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Read it twice.
Our verdict
Situation and story.
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