The two stories, "A Christmas Memory" and The Grass Harp are strikingly similar due to the fact that Truman Capote wrote both stories. The settings of both stories are very similar. In The Grass Harp the setting is very sullen: the season is fall, the days are always cloudy, and it is very slow moving in a small southern town. Similarly, "A Christmas Memory" has dismal and sluggish qualities of a southern, rural community in the dead of winter. The first lines of "A Christmas Memory immediately establish the sad scene: "Imagine a morning late in November. A coming of winter more than twenty years ago." Several elements of the story are parallel: the settings, the nature of the friendships, the rejection by peers, and the characters' love of nature.
The relationships between Colin and Dolly in The Grass Harp, and Buddy and Cousin in "A Christmas Memory" are close regardless of the differences in age. In "A Christmas Memory," Buddy and Cousin have a large age split: Buddy is seven......

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Title: A Christmas Memory Vs. The Gra
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