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Lydia Davis Short Stories Writing Assignment

Lydia Davis’s stories are often about relationships between couples or between humans and

their pets. In these two stories, what difficulties arise in relationships between two individuals?

Do the stories offer or imply any advice about relationships? Write a paragraph in which you

explore the problems of relationships as presented in these stories. Define the problem and the

implied solution, and support your ideas with quotations from the stories and examples from

your own experience.

The difficulties that arise in the relationship between the individuals are difference of

opinion and different point of views in the short stories “Or, rather, his decision was still wrong,

but wrong for circumstances different from the circumstances as they actually were, while it was

right for circumstances I clearly did not understand.” sometimes others may be right you may

just not understand.