The Matchmaker and Magic Barrel

Introduction

The paper contains the comparison of the two stories out of one claim to be a fictional and other literary. This paper aims to compare the two stories in order to find which story is fictional and which is literary. “The Magic Barrel” is a short story which is written by Bernard Malamud, which was first published in 1954. Bernard Malamud has been reckoned a magician himself in that, as one of the most significant Jewish American writers of the 20th century, he helped acquaint readers with Jewish culture as he simultaneously placed Jewish fiction in the ...