On Being a Real Westerner

Critique of “On Being a Real Westerner” by Tobias Wolff Wolff throughout this account shows how a great storyteller can twist a basic story into thriller in every sense of the word. Wolff’s plot structure is very simplistic given the personality of an autobiography. The paragraphs fallow the form that was taught to most by a sixth grade teacher. A basic idea fallowed by descriptions and closed with transition that leads you to the …

…to keep from laughing in the ecstasy of my power over them.” The suggestion that a boy believed that he had so much muscle with this rifle that it almost caused him to snicker at his destructive power is preposterous. His language on the other hand makes me believe it. A testament to Wolff is how he can in fact depict anything so clearly that believing it is not a stretch for the narrowest mind.