Margaret Atwood’s short story “Death by Landscape.”

Margaret Atwood’s short story “Death by Landscape.”

In Margaret Atwood’s short story “Death by Landscape,” the core conflict is Lois’s disbelieve of cessation over the unanticipated evanesce of her pal Lucy Fraser (2007, p.1280). Lois was a good friend of Lucy, and before she vanishes they were together, Lois is worried about what could have made her friend disappeared. It is this uncertainty that led Lois to be in deep conflict with herself, and this is what Lois had to deal with for the rest of her life (Raschke, 2012, p. 79). Even the camp director presumed that Lois had something to do with Lucy’s vanish. It is correct to insinuate that Lois’s guilt only appended because of the fate of her friend Lucy (Raschke, 2012, p. 77). Lois’s answer to this uncertain wrangle is to purchase a different type of paintings that illustrate the wilderness that nudges her of her significant loss of her friend.

In this short story, the two terms of fiction applied are the setting and the theme of the story. The tale adheres strictly to the life of Lois, where it takes us back to the past, in the account setting Lois remembers going to Camp Manitou Fraser, (2007, p.1280) The setting of the narrative is in the wilderness.  At first, Lois dislikes the place but gradually adapts to the environment. She settles down and makes friends with Lucy, who later vanishes. The impact of her relationship is so intense that even after Lucy’s disappearance, her life is not the same again (Raschke, 2012, p. 67). The narrative adheres to the theme of loss and separation. In this short story, the author mainly laid a lot of emphasis on Lois’s life to illustrate the tragic losses when she lost her friend, and this led her to separate herself from the rest of other people.

Reference

Fraser, F. D. (2007). Literature and medicine: Exploring Margaret Atwood’s short story “Death by Landscape.” Canadian Family Physician, 53(8), 1280-1281.

Raschke, D. (2012). Framed Identity: Finding Lucy in Atwood’s” Death by Landscape.” Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, 65-80.