Miriam

Miriam
By Truman Capote
















Miriam, Mrs. H. T. Miller, is an elderly widow living in a Manhattan apartment, who smokes an occasional cigarette. She ventures out one night to a movie where she meets a young girl also named Miriam. Later that evening the little girl shows up at Mrs. Miler's apartment unannounced. Miriam aggressively asks to be invited into her apartment because she is hungry. She becomes an un-welcomed visitor and has to be given a cameo, a valuable piece of jewelry given by her husband, in order to leave her apartment. The next morning she goes shopping and sees an older gentleman that smiles quite strangely at her. Miriam comes to visit again that same day and is at the door waiting impatiently, demanding to move in. Mrs. Miller goes to her neighbors for help with he little girl, the neighbor comes back and says she could not find any person in the apartment. It is only then that Mrs. Miller realizes that her mind has made up the whole hallucination. There was no girl, only a fantasy of one thought.

Theme

This is a story about a lonely personn who has fantasize relationships that help her remember her husband and go on with life. She enters a make- beileve world, because that is the world she has.

Characters

Miriam

Mrs. H. T. Miller

Response

I thought this story was a very up tempo story with a terrific mystery plot. It was amazing how the author made Miriam seem so real until the neighbor could not find her. It was only when the twisted theme explained itself, that Miriam was just a fantasy.

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Here is a movie that shows a description of his life.






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