Perspectives

Here, we will give you some points that can help you put the short story “Death by Scrabble” by Charlie Fish into perspective and better understand the author’s style.

Literary period

Published in 2006, the short story “Death by Scrabble” falls into the category of Modernist fiction. One feature of Modernist text is the use of the first-person narrator, which makes the events more authentic and easy to relate to. Another feature of Modernism is the fragmentation of the text,...

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Works in the same genre

Although “Death by Scrabble” has just some of the elements of a tragi-comedy, we advise you to read “A Shocking Accident” by Graham Greene...

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Works with the same theme

For the theme of karma, we recommend you read the short story “Karma” by Khushwant Singh (Worlds of English, pp. 178). In the story, an Indian man named Mohan Lal is pretentious and wants to adopt the habits of English aristocrats.

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Works by the same author

Charlie Fish is famous for the short story “The Man Who Married Himself”.

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