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Robert Browning And Tobias Wolff's Hunters In The Snow

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Both Robert Browning and Tobias Wolff are celebrated writers whose works have great literary worth. The difference in the writers is the style they use and how they bring out their main points within their works. Browning employs different literary techniques in his poems compared to the ones Wolff uses in his short stories. The writers have some similarities in the subject matter they write about and presentation of these subjects at times. Browning and Wolff although very different writers have tackled the subject of the deep thoughts and actions of man with their works, but Wolff did so more effectively than Browning. Browning’s works allow the reader to infer a lot about what is happening within his poems. Browning uses poems that could …show more content…

Wolff’s works have great social relevance and value. In his short story “Hunters in The Snow” Wolff uses objective point of view and authorial objectivity to get his points across. He uses these by telling the story and what happened without leaving much room for the reader to infer what else is happening. He does this through use of mainly dialogue and actions when telling the story. Wolff uses authorial objectivity by telling the story from the point of view of someone who's not involved with what’s going on. Wolff uses his past to build the characters in the story. Wolff who was abused as child. Some of Wolff being abused and bullied as a child can be seen when Kenny and Frank make fun of Tub because he is overweight. Later in the story Kenny is shooting the things “hates”. When Kenny turns to Tub, Tub finally stands up to him. “Kenny turned to Tub. ‘I hate you.’ Tub shot from the waist. Kenny jerked backward against the fence and buckled to his knees” (Wolff, 91). Later in the story Wolff uses epiphany when Tub realizes Kenny was only playing and was asked to shoot a farmer's dog, and then when he turned his gun toward Tub in his rant that it was only a joke. Wolff uses this to help show how Tub isn’t remorseful about what he did, but he still tries to fix it by getting directions to a hospital. Wolff uses negative capability when Frank and

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