![]() ![]() She quite rightly resented being taken for a writer of romance fiction. Although du Maurier strains the short story form by avoiding a startling dramatic coup or a resolution, her story is an example of the genre at its best. He and his family are left stalled in inaction, waiting to learn how fate will deal with them. Nat could not convince them to take the hostility of the birds seriously. At story's end, we don't know what will happen to these four people. Nat must also manage the feelings of his wife and children to avoid panic as tension and danger mount. Fiction loves to describe practical tasks step by step. We learn of his handiwork and contrivances. The first of Nat’s concerns is to fortify his home and stock enough food and fuel for the fire and lamps in order to survive day to day. How can Nat Hocken protect his family and home when birds have declared war on humanity? The setting is limited to a single house with an interval at a nearby farm. The field of its action is narrow, the characters few, only one, the narrator, in any way probed, and our attention is not distracted from his overriding predicament. ![]() ‘The Birds’ a 1963 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and restored by the Bologna Cinetecaĭaphne du Maurier’s ‘The Birds’ is a classic short story. The Other Lecce (the Monumental Cemeteryĭaphne du Maurier: ‘The Birds New Edition’, 1999, Longman, 48 pages, ISBN-13:978-0582417984. ![]()
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