One Perfect Story: Chris Jones on "The Things That Carried Him"
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The Choice to Tell a Story Backwards
The Washington Post wrote a review of that story and said it was a very strange choice. And it is, I think, but I think it's a choice. If you tell it chronologically, you know that the way I knew the ending was the funeral. You see Joey only as a body until the very end of the story when he is leaving his men through the grass. That became important to me just for emotional reasons, I guess is the word. Yeah. I think it backwards was not my idea,. But I think it made sense afterwards.
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