- “Game” by Donald Barthelme Summary – Short Story Guide:
“Game” is a short story by Donald Barthelme that can be found in his collection Sixty Stories It’s about two soldiers assigned to monitor a console in an underground bunker, and how they’re affected when they fail to get relieved from the job Here’s a summary of “Game”
- Game by Donald Barthelme (Summary) - Writing Atlas
Game By Donald Barthelme , first published in The New Yorker Two men have been locked underground somewhere in Utah, Montana, or Idaho with instructions to wait for a monitor's signal then each turn a key in a lock simultaneously to fire a "bird" at an unknown target city
- “Game” — Donald Barthelme – Biblioklept
“Game” by Donald Barthelme Shotwell keeps the jacks and the rubber ball in his attaché case and will not allow me to play with them He plays with them, alone, sitting on the floor near the console hour after hour, chanting “onesies, twosies, threesies, foursies” in a precise, well-modulated voice, not so loud as to be annoying, not so
- The Game by Donald Barthelme - YouTube
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- ‘Game’ by Donald Barthelme – A Personal Anthology
A great short story is tightly wound, not one wasted moment, and 'Game' is a breathless, claustrophobic, paranoid tale which takes place in a single room in an underground bunker The two protagonists – Shotwell and the Narrator – are bored and restless, armed with pistols and rocking each other to sleep at night
- Game - The New Yorker
When he lulls Shotwell to sleep he understands that he wants him to do something with his key while he does something with his own, but the writer says it is fair that Shotwell give him a turn
- Stories to Go: Game by Donald Barthelme
"Game" by Donald Barthelme Two people locked in a bunker deep underground act as some sort of sentinels guarding a mysterious console which may be attached to some sort of doomsday device One plays jacks, the other doesn't
- GAME: By Donald Barthelme - latexnet. org
Sometimes instead of watching the console I pointedly watch Shotwell's 45, but this is simply a ruse, simply a maneuver, in reality I am watching his hand when it dangles in the vicinity of his right calf If he decides I am behaving strangely he will shoot me not with the 45 but with the Beretta
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