Brevity and Paradox

Of the short stories we read for today, I also found “Mr. Palomar in His Garden” and “The Handsomest Drowned Man” the most interesting of the five. I think they both start off with particularly grasping introductions which keep you interested in reading to the end. Looking at all five stories, I found the diverse creativity rather interesting. No two stories seemed to be written in the same way. The approach and perspective are, at least slightly, different from one another. “Pierre Menard,” for example, was more of a close reading of what Menard accomplished in his version of Quixote and how interesting Borges found it to be, whereas “The Handsomest Drowned Man” was a funny tale that could be used to entertain both children and adults.