Luckily for his readers, Cliff keeps us firmly on course from start to finish. Cliff’s characters-most without a roadmap or even a compass-travel by many different roads to get to this celebration. I trust his readers will feel every bit as celebratory by the time they get this far. In the final story, “Red Peony,” In an Uncharted Country brings Cliff’s long list of characters together to celebrate a July 4 th barbeque. Cliff dusted off the device, gave it a new twist and subsequently created just as memorable a moment. One of the most poignant points in the plot of “Saving Melissa” may or may not be directly derivative of a device first used (so far as I know) by Evelyn Waugh in his short story “Bella Fleace Gave a Party.” It doesn’t matter. Cliff does them the best kind of justice. Two of the best-at least in my opinion-“Saving Melissa” and “Heading for Home,” are variations on a pair of themes many writers have taken refuge in. Many of these stories deal with familiar themes.
Sam Shepard allegedly once remarked “It ain’t the story, son it’s how you tell it.” I think that remark applies quite aptly to Cliff’s collection. In an Uncharted Country deals with ordinary folks in ordinary circumstances doing sometimes extraordinary things. In order to give the work the benefit of my undivided attention, I restricted my second reading to quiet time at home.) (In self-defense, I should mention that my first reading was relegated, due to my immediate circumstances, to the subway-a place of much noise and many distractions. It was only upon my second reading that I discovered the layers I’d missed the first time around. I read this collection once in order to review it for Amazon, then re-read it following Daniel Casey’s invitation to re-review it for Gently Read Literature. Not so, generally speaking, with prose, no matter how good.Ĭlifford Garstang’s collection of related stories, In an Uncharted Country, is an exception to that general rule. A good poem invites several visits in order for its reader to discover additional layers-or meanings-with each new reading. Bella Fleace shows that she is superficial, eccentric, and extremely proud because she is cemented into a past belief of social structures with a need to pretend if not actually to be of particular social strata.In an Uncharted Country, Clifford Garstang, Press 53, 2009 Reality and drama set in on Bella, at this point the irony of the situation is too much for Bella and she looses her grip on reality. Banks her cousin, comes to the funeral and later when sorting affairs, he finds the unmailed invitations in the desk in the denouement. writing Tagged 'Bella Fleace Gave a Party', cautionary tales, Evelyn Waugh, observations. Bella Fleace dies a day after saying these final words in the sad resolution. Posts about Bella Fleace Gave a Party written by EF Sweetman. They came uninvited those two and nobody else (Waugh 587). The shock and horror of Bellas social shortcoming is too great for her to deal with. Please forgive me if I am unable to entertain you (Waugh 587). As two uninvited guest shows up at the party, a turning point occurs. The climax is reached when Bella descends the stairs at eight and not a soul has come to her party. The rising action continues with huge and ostentatious plans for a Christmas party to rival all others in the countryside. Bella responds by selling the books, and decides to squander the proceeds on repairing the house for a party to keep the cousin from part of his inheritance. Conflict arises quickly when a distant cousin, her heir, arrives and covets some books in the house. She is portrayed as a confused and ill-tempered woman shunned by most because of her nature.
An aging socialite is introduced in many direct and indirect characterizations. Bella Fleace Gave a Party Winner Takes All Work Suspended Scott-Kings Modern Europe Basil Seal Rides Again Charles Ryders Schooldays, Evelyn.
It is a time of enormous change in the political and social structure of these peoples lives. Bella Fleace Gave a Party In the introduction to Bella Fleace Gave a Party, extensive background is revealed to help the reader understand the times in which the character lived.
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