Narrative As A Short Story

A short story is a fictional work of prose that is shorter in length than a novel. Edgar Allan Poe in his essay ‘The Philosophy of Composition’ states that a short story should be read in one sitting, anywhere from a half hour or two hours (Poe). A short story has a beginning, middle and a memorable end and it usually contains fewer characters and settings. Such stories are intended to be easy and suitable pieces of writing that can be read quickly unlike novels.
Plot, character, and setting are some of the elements of short stories which lead to an effective narrative. Narratives can also be an account of illusory events that follow a plot structure which includes introduction or exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

Man is the only individual who tells story. It started with oral conventions as myths, legends, tales, accounts, and so forth. The term ‘Narratology’ was used by Tzvetan Todorov in 1969. As Barry states “Narratology is the study of how narratives make meaning, and what the basic mechanisms and procedures are which are common to all acts of storytelling” (Barry). It not only interprets the individual story but also attempts to study the nature of story by itself.
The Narrative is an art of storytelling. It aids to express our thoughts, feelings, experiences, and observations. The story teller tells a story in an artistic manner. Story might be used as an equivalent word for narrative, to allude to the arrangement of occasions depicted in a story. Homer's ‘Iliad and Odyssey’, Chaucer's ‘Canterbury Tales’ and Spencer's ‘Faerie Queene’ are famous examples for extensive use of

The last four stories specifically The Eye, Night, Voices and Dear Life are taken for analysis. Munro is a skilled writer whose quality lies in her capacity to display the surface of regular day to day existence with both concern and unyielding exactness. The key features of narrative techniques are plot, setting, character and style which were used by the writer in her stories.
Munro’s attitude seems to be changed with the publication of Dear Life. It is supposed to be the last book in her career and the author also revisits her wounds in the ‘finale’ or autobiographical sections. In the preceding note she writes “The final four works in this book are not quite stories. They form a separate unit, one that is autobiographical in feeling, though not, sometimes, entirely so in fact. I believe that they are the first and the last -.and closest- things I have to say about my life” (DL