This story was so much fun to read, besides the fact that I have an overreacting imagination and I live in a big creepy house all by myself. The tension in the story is something that I wanna copy in my own work because why I was reading that story I kept looking outside my windows to make sure there wasn't a creep parked outside my house.
After doing the dialogue assignment and then going to read this story, I felt like my dialogue was too dry. All of Oates' dialogue added all the right elements. Oates was able to add the right amount of rising action not just through her characters speech, but with their actions and facial expressions. It helped make the story feel more real to read and kept me wanting to read more. That is how i want my dialogue to be as interesting as Oates because at this point mine sounds monotone.
Just the all over creep factor in this story had my skin crawling. Especially when Arnold starts to call Connie "honey". Then as he gets more aggressive with her I could feel my anxiety boiling and I was hoping that Connie would run, grab a knife, and kill him. And I was so angry that she left with him! It was like she wasn't even trying that hard to fight back from his mortifying advances.
Excusing my rant and getting to the main point of this blog, Oates ultimately creates an ongoing tension throughout the story using scene and dialogue. Oates's dialogue carries the drama by lowering the tension to a snails' pace and then slapping it in our face exactly when the reader needed it. All of this was found through the body language of the characters and how they addressed one another from the beginning to the end of the story.
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