Characterization In Victory Lap By George Saunders
In his short story “Victory Lap”, George Saunders used characterization to draw attention to how some people find it easier to cover up reality instead of facing it. He first emphasizes on that covering things up habit near the beginning of the story when Alison Pope’s imagination bring her to recreate a situation where a hunter kills a deer. Alison then asks the hunter to, “lay her out in a field of clover, with roses strewn about her.” With that particular act of putting flowers around the body to make this untimely end seem more beautiful than it really is, Saunders introduce that idea that for some people, closing your eyes to the atrocities of life makes it so much easier to live happily afterwards. Moreover, the author then brought to