Say, is This a Useful Distinction?

"Real" vs. "Irreal"

This week, let’s pause to ask: what, if anything, is the essential difference between a story like “The Lady with the Dog” and one like “The School?”  I think we ultimately want to argue that there isn’t any difference, especially in terms of how we approach analyzing them – but they do feel somehow different, in their intentions, in how they proceed and, maybe, in their baseline assumptions about what literature is for, and how it’s supposed to work.

So, let’s play with this idea a bit.