Wood Grouse on a High Promontory Overlooking Canada
- analysis and interpretation

The short story Wood Grouse on a High Promontory Overlooking Canada by David Guterson takes place in the mountains between USA and Canada, where two brothers are on a trip together, enjoying nature and doing guy stuff. Guterson uses a first person narrator bound to the 15-year old Bud, whose older brother Gary has just returned home from war and now has taken his little brother out in the wilderness to catch trout, watch the sunset and find the Canadian border. The brothers seem to be fond of each other and enjoy each others company, but the narrator also brings the age difference into focus and the fact that the story is written in the past tense increases the impression that this is a fifteen-year-olds experiences that are being looked back on: “I don’t know. I was fifteen. I spent a lot of time throwing rocks, I know that.” (Line 8.) With his brother being back from war, Bud is not quite......

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Title: Wood Grouse On A High Promontory Overlooking Canada
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