SOURCE: “Myth and Epiphany in Porter's ‘The Grave,’” in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 15, No. 3, Summer, 1978, pp. 269–75.
In the following essay, Rooke and Wallis assert that critical interest in Porter's “The Grave” has long ignored the story's dominant themes—particularly the fall of man—in favor of a series of less important symbols in the story.
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