Use Of Dreams In "Doe Season" and "B. Wordsworth"

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adventurous plot that tells the tale of a hunting incident. The use of dreams in "Doe Hunting" gives the tale sensitivity and a psychological resonance the plot would lack otherwise. The short story "Doe Hunting" is both a coming of age tale as well as an adventure story. According to a recent 2003 interview with David Michael Kaplan, about "Doe Hunting," a plot is always "a sequence of events." (Lovell, p.4) Word I.Q. agrees with Kaplan, defining plot as "according to Aristotle's Poetics, a plot in literature is the arrangement of incidents that (ideally) each follow plausibly from the other. The plot is like the chalk outline that guides the painter's brush. An example of the type of plot that follows these sorts of lines is the linear plot of development to be discerned within the pages of a bildungsroman novel." (Wordiq, 2004)
However, although both Doe Season and B. Wordsworth could be called bildungsroman, or coming of age stories, "B. Wordsworth" lacks such a ...

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