Throughout Northrop Frye’s essay “The Singing School” Frye expresses his thoughts on how literature is not uniquely inspired, despite the different genres. Instead, Frye believes that, “a writer’s desire to write can only have come from previous experiences of literature”, and “he’ll start by imitating whatever he’s read, which usually means what people around him are writing” (14), this quotation explains that there is a pedigree to writing in which leads to conventions,which is a “typical and socially accepted way of writing” (14). Likewise, Frye constantly states that “literature can derive its form only from itself” (14), and are the the “typical ways in which stories get told” ( ). One of the three major conventions that Frye describes