Narrator, “White Dancing Elephants”

The narrator of “White Dancing Elephants” is a married woman in her early forties. She lives in London, and she has a deep desire to be a mother. Unfortunately, she has had trouble conceiving, and when she finally did become pregnant, the pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. Over the course of the story, she wanders around London as she grapples with her grief.

Protagonist, “The Story of the Woman Who Fell in Love with Death”

“The Story of the Woman Who Fell in Love with Death” follows an unnamed protagonist. At the beginning of the story, he is 11 years old. He struggles with grief over his sister, who went missing and was presumed dead. The boy clings to hope that she might simply have run away. The boy eventually grows up to become a doctor. One day, the body of a recently deceased woman arrives...