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• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Davis, Lydia. "The Center of the Story."Grand Street, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 19-22. Online: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25007296

• The story is told in the third person; it focuses on a woman who has "written yet another story that is not interesting, though it has a hurricane in it, and a hurricane usually promises to be interesting" (19).

• The story is dull because, although the hurricane menaces a city, it does not strike the city. This causes the story to have "no center" (19).

• The author struggles with her story because it is about religion, a subject that she does not want to write about.

• She cannot currently remember what motivated her to begin the story in the first place.

• She knows that "The story is not good, and there...

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