Two stories

The purpose of this thesis is, quite simply, to tell two stories. They are stories I thought worth telling, and they are told as I believe they should be told. Each centers about a single character because I believe that people are the essence of fiction. It will perhaps be most effective to write about the stories Individually, Inasmuch as talking generally about fiction—its goals and methods--seems a sure and ready way to make oneself foolish. Indeed, talking too much about even the individual ones of one's stories is a way to seem foolish. If what one feels about the story could be summed up in a quick sentence or two, then there would have been no point ever in writing the story