The School: Postmodernist Ideas
Beginning of paper
Barthelme's "The School" is the first postmodernist story I have ever read.
When I read it for the first time, my lips formed a bitter smile. In my
imagination, postmodernist stories differed from the classical ones in the
arrangement of the ideas and in the standard that postmodernists reject so ....
Middle of paper
.... is unrecoverable. Pessimism, mostly expressed
in taking death naturally, spreads uniformly all over the story, from the first
paragraph about the orange trees to the last when the new gerbil enters the
classroom. In this school, where the children are supposed to receive education,
everything dies. The fish, the salamander, and the orange trees die though
children take much care of them. The teacher is pessimistic although life goes
on and a new gerbil walks in the school. Edgar says t ....
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