Death Comes for the Archbishop :: Death Comes for the Archbishop

Death Comes for the Archbishop A Narrative or a impertinent?Is it a narrative or a saucy? Few questions study caused me this much trouble. It became app arent to me that Willa Cathers Death Comes for the Archbishop would non be an easy go of literature to classify. Within just a few pages, it became apparent that this flake of literature is more than either category will allow. While interpret the pages of this story I get the feeling that I am not reading a novel, rather it is a series of short stories. I understand why the critics claim that this is not a novel. While the chapters in each section crackm to be connected, the sections themselves tend to be mixed-up from each other. Each one is able to stand on its own. It is not until I step back and reflect upon the novel that I give the bounce tally the ties that bind the different sections together. This is not a story just about Archbishop Jean Marie Latour, in the end I still do not know him. Rather, Willa Cather use s him as a vessel to display the world just about him. It is by him that I learn about the people and places of New Mexico. It is through his eyes the beautiful terra firmascape of the desert comes to life. I can see and smell the land in which he travels. I hear through his ears the legends that make the history of the land so important. It is apparent to me that this is not a novel about an individual person, but about a place. The land and people of New Mexico are the storytellers. It is through them that this series of short stories are joined together into a novel. It is the story of these events that make up the narrative. thither is no way to simply classify Death Comes for the Archbishop. It is a novel, a narrative, and a series of short stories. It is simply, what you make of it. Death Comes to the Archbishop could be assert as something other than a novel. I believe that the stereotypical novel is more structured and rigid in refinement than Cathers example. I see tha t a strong plot cannot be identified and that the journal come seems to be misleading. There really is not an antagonist, so in counterpart, there is no protagonist.