Victoria: “Get the narrator, and you’ve got the piece” (123) Abby: “The story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say.” . . . I enjoy the part where…

“Every work of literature has both a situation and a story. The situation is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say.” — Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story…