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Pale Horse, Pale Rider

Quote 1

Original quote

“And the stranger? Where is that lank greenish stranger I remember hanging about the place, welcomed by my grandfather, my great-aunt, my five times removed cousin, my decrepit hound and my silver kitten? Why did they take to him, I wonder? And where are they now?” (Porter 2)

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It is apparent that the story unfolds that the strangers is meant to represent death. Miranda’s thoughts turn to her memory of a “And the stranger? Where is that lank greenish stranger I remember hanging about the place, welcomed by my grandfather, my great-aunt, my five times removed cousin, my decrepit hound and my silver kitten? Why did they take to him?” Miranda wonders where the stranger is saying that she saw “him” outside her window that evening.

Quote 2

Original quote

“Now what horse shall I borrow for this journey I do not mean to take, Graylie or Miss Lucy or Fiddler who can jump ditches in the dark and knows how to get the bit between his teeth? Early morning is best for me because trees are trees in one stroke, stones are stones set in shades known to be grass, there are no false shapes or surmises, the road is still asleep with the crust of dew unbroken. I’ll take Graylie because he is not afraid of bridges” (Porter 3).

Paraphrased quote with embedded partial quotation

Still in her dream, Miranda gets out of her be to embark on a secretive journey. She wants to outrun death and the devil. She is pondering on which horse to use. She considers whether to use Graylie, Fiddler, or Miss Lucy. She decides to use Graylie, “because he is not afraid of bridges”

Quote 3

Original quote

“Slowly, unwillingly, Miranda drew herself up inch by inch out of the pit of sleep, waited in a daze for life to begin again. A single word struck in her mind, a gong of warning, reminding her for the day long what she forgot happily in sleep, and only in sleep. The war, said the gong, and she shook her head” (Porter 4)

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At this point, Maranda wakes from the dream and she immediately remembers the reality of her conscious life, “a single word struck in her mind, a gong of warning, reminding her for the day long what she forgot happily in sleep, and only in sleep.”

Cited work

Porter, Katherine Anne. Pale horse, pale rider: three short novels. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990.