Margaret Atwoods, "This Is a Photograph of Me"

I orginally chose to blog about Poe's work due to his usual gruesome and unique writing style. But when I scanned over Margaret Atwood's, "This Is a Photograph of Me," I was immediately intrigued wirth her seven paragraph story.

She allows the reader to mentally illustrate the photo of a small, country home along with some land. Atwood is extremely descriptive in her writing. I felt as if I was holding the older, soiled photograph in my hand, dim and grey as if the camera had no flash. She then unfolds the story piece by piece. First, your looking at a blurred photo, next a tree branch comes into vision, then the frame of a house and finally some hills and a lake.

After describing a simple photo, Atwood throws in a cliffhanger, "The photograph was taken the day after I drowned". She puts it in parenthesis as if to say, this is just a simple side-note, nothing to take seriously. This gave a gruesome, mysterious twist to her writing style and left me wanting to read more of her other work.