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Tobias Wolff is a strange writer whose work is "so absolutely clear and hypnotic that a reader wants to take it apart and find some simple way to describe why it works so beautifully"(Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life [back cover]). Although sometimes taking place in such foreign locations as Vietnam, Wolff's stories are predominantly based on banal situations and people. The magic in his writing though is the fact he draws the reader into the story at all times. He does so by connecting his characters and their conflicts to the reader, be it through quirks, qualities or quandaries. Wolff perfects these concepts by writing in his own lucid, terse style. "The tales in Wolff's [books] are seamless, their characters relentlessly ordinary"(Joan Smith, "SpelunkingÂ…"). Through personal experience and careful observation Wolff gathers the necessary insight to piece together novels that clearly dealt with the "normal" man and woman, their problems, and their accomplishments. Wolff's stories do not consist of big drug deals or heated love triangles, but instead of prosaic situations. One such is when Wolff's older brother sent him some writing he had done and Wolff considered turning it into his English teacher as his, but dismissed the idea knowing he would never get away with it (Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life 200-201). Although occurring in hackneyed settings, many of Wolff's characters find themselves in situations they would never have thought possible: "The characters of these stories are basically decent people who discover that they're capable of things they never expected -- and can never again believe themselves worthy of being considered decent. (Charles Taylor, "Sneak Peeks: The Night In Question"). For example, in the short story "Hunters in the Snow," by Wolff, a group of three middle-aged men are hunting in the woods when they come across a farm. Two men go inside and come out later and one is acting a little strange. The strange one says, "I hate that tree,"...
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