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Short Story Commentary In my short story I took inspiration from Angela Carter's 'The Company of Wolves.' Carter is renowned for basing her short stories on fairy tales or children's stories, she once stated 'My intention was not to do 'versions' or, as the American edition of the book said, horribly, 'adult' fairy tales, but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories.' Through analysing Carter's work I decided to base my story around the plot of 'The Lady and the Tramp.' My basic plot was a girl meets an unsuitable man who 'leeches' off the girl and takes her from childhood to womanhood. Another decision made through analysing the work of Carter was to have only two characters that don't have names, by doing this I was able to, in the words of Richard Ford 'give us something big but...in precious little time and space.' Using this method, characters can...

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