Ayana (short story written by Stephen King)

(Short story written by Stephen King)

For a short story, we are dealing with a lot of character names to remember. so this requires a lot of work and concentration, is the story worth it? Good question. Compared to “Harvey’s Dream” and “The New York Times…” along with “Rest Stop”, it’s a little better written, although the ending of “Rest Stop” is well above the ending of “Alana”.

In “Ayana” he only curses once, thank goodness, every time someone does it in these so-called modern stories, it smells like he has a bad vocabulary (the author, not the character), like the author can’t. t find a good replacement-limited expressions. Anyway, this is my 4th book review and 4th short story: “Just After Sunset” which I’ve read about Mr. King’s. It is better written than the three previous ones -I repeat- and it has good descriptions, a good explanation, a good construction of the theme, it stays in its proper times; shows the hopelessness of growing old, his similes are good for once, in the last three stories it would have been better to leave them. I actually found a bit of style in this story, believe it or not, although it did take it from Sherwood Anderson, but as Hemingway once said: you can take, only if you can do better. Perhaps he didn’t need much dialogue in this story either, because it’s not there, since he used a narration more of a report than an implication -which always lacks adjectives-. There isn’t as much suspense in this as there was in “Rest Stop”.

Actually, the ending was a bit flat on “Ayana”, but we can’t all find dynamic endings every time, now we can. I guess the story is pretty good, even though I didn’t nominate it for a Blue Ribbon. It’s not much of a story, but I repeat once again, the dilemma of aging that we all face is the thread that holds the story together for me.