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Like most traditional short narratives, the stories in this collection tend to follow a simple structure of rising action, climax, and falling action. Certain stories take on different forms. However, this underlying structure is still visible. Again, this style of structuring a story was very common for twentieth-century short story writers and Wolff's decision to include these kind of stories in this collection supports this style of traditional narrative over the experimental narrative structures found in post-modern fiction.

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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories