Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“There was no end either to her stories or her kindness.”
- Source
- Deephaven
- Date
- 1877
- Local voice
- Fictional narrator · First-person narrator
Meaning of “There was no end either to her stories…”
The narrator joins generosity and storytelling in one portrait, suggesting that attention, memory and hospitality can be experienced together as forms of kindness.
Where does it come from?
Deephaven, represented within Project Gutenberg #15985, Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches. The first-person visiting narrator is characterizing a local woman after extended conversation; it is fictional/regional narration rather than Jewett autobiography.
Why the local voice matters
Deephaven. The visiting narrator describes an older local woman after an afternoon of conversation; the statement is narrative characterization.