7/4/2023 0 Comments The old man daphne du maurierOverall, there is an indescribable completeness she brings to her stories. Du Maurier’s writing is not just limited to these two aspects: she is brilliant at observing both the external landscape in which her stories are located and the workings of the mind of her characters and the feelings they grapple with. Her imagination gets reflected in her plausible plots and all her male characters are utterly convincing: you could have met them anywhere had you lived in the period she set her stories in. On both these fronts Du Maurier simply excels. There are many aspects of accomplished writers that make them great and two of them I am coming to realize include: “ Imagination” and “ Ability to do characters of opposite sex” convincingly. Each of the stories is well imagined, well written with a unexpected twist at the end. I have to admit that this is my first serious exposure to du Maurier’s writing after a brief brush with her short story “Don’t Look Now” – read so long back and so completely forgotten that it would not be wrong to say I have never read her. “The Birds”, “Monte Verita”, “The Apple Tree”, “The Little Photographer”, “Kiss Me Again, Stranger” and “The Old Man”. Completed this collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier consisting of six well written stories viz.
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