The Dead Child

An overview of the short story "The Dead Child" The Dead Child written by Gabrielle Roy is a story about how an young inexperienced substitute teacher helps her students to deal with the death of their peer-Yolande. The story takes place in a small Metis villege in Manitoba on a summer day in June during The Great Depression. The setting is divided into three scenes: the classroom, Yolande's house and outside of the house. The …

…of wild roses for her. Her strategies prove successful except for the fact that the memory of the dead child begins to haunt her. The outcome as implaied above, is that the teacher overcome the immediate problems. However, as the opening and closing lines revels she can not reconcile herself to the death of the child. That is she is haunted by the memory of Yolande, especially and ironically speaking in the middle of summer.