Look For It in Bonnie Jo Campbells Short Story...

Look For It I have seen short story collections at garage sales, thrift stores, and bookstores. I have never actually picked one up and read the front or the back covers. Short stories never interested me for the simple fact of their being short. With Bonnie Jo Campbell’s writing in her collection American Salvage I can appreciate a story without the full beginning, middle, and end. Readers will be occupied by Campbell’s use of detail and her depressing story lines with hidden love. Campbell writes realistic stories that will grip your bones. As the reader you might forget how short a story may be because of the way Campbell grabs your attention instantly. â€Å"The Yard Man† begins explaining the sightings of a snake. The main character Jerry explains the snake as one of a kind. He attempts touching the snake but the snake and Jerry are disrupted by a shriek from his wife Natalie. She has full view of the snake. Natalie demands Jerry kill the snake instantly. Je rry tries, but fails as the snake slithers across the overgrown grass. Jerry informs shaken up Natalie the snake is nothing he has ever seen before and the possibility of the rareness. She refuses to live where snakes live and is so terribly tired of the house they live in. Natalie likes nothing of the house and is very adamant on making that known to Jerry. She has two children from a previous marriage that Jerry takes in as his own. He is trying to accomplish all the seventeen million things he has to fix on the