Stone Diaries Carol Shields

The style used by Shields helps us recreate pieces of reality in the existence of a human being. A continual stream of consciousness mirrors the rhythms of daily life so that we only get pieces, memories, subjective appraisals, and moments of Daisy, just as we do in real life. Daisy embraces the trials and tribulations of life basically like a stone - passively, resiliently, heavily. There is a great deal of stone imagery and symbolism in the novel written as autobiography that unifies the pieces of Daisy’s life and stands as a metaphor for her character and abili

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ccurate regarding human behavior it is a brilliant brushstroke that captures a swatch of reality. It is the mundane that is mixed with the dramatic in existence as tablecloths and linens are mixed with death and Mercy’s blood “Joining the derangement of linen and of air, at the center of which lies his wife – on the blood-drenched kitchen couch, its gathered cretonne cover – my mother, her mountainous body stilled, her eyes closed. ‘Eclampsia,’ Dr. Spears says solemnly, pulling a sheet – no, not a sheet but a tablecloth – up over her face” (Shields 38). The second criticism refers to the author’s alleged inability to provide enough information or detail to fully inform the reader: Carol Shields didn’t give the reader enough information or detail when you want or need to know it. Instead, she waits until it doesn’t matter any more. It would have been better if the book was written from Daisy’s perspective, not how she though other people perceived her. (The Stone 3) This criticism is misdirected on two levels. The first misses the fact that very often in life knowledge and awareness come to us in a process, slowly, in bits and pieces, over time. It is often when it is too late that we discover an awareness or knowledg
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Approximate Word count = 1322
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page)