This post continues my theme of drawing wisdom from Ursula Le Guin’s Orsinian Tales. You can check out some of my previous posts for a more detailed summary of the book.
The story Brothers and Sisters follows two brothers and their sister and their interactions with each other and the people of the town. Without explaining the story, I want to share a little of Le Guin’s eloquence in character development.
She describes the characters. The oldest brother is a man. The second, Stefan, is a young man. And their sister is thirteen, just growing up, just learning how to interact with other people, figuring out how to carry herself. Le Guin describes her interactions with Stefan:
Usually she and Stefan quarreled, touching each other where each was raw, unfinished.
