... narrator. This makes the relations between the narrator and the readers more intimate and makes the narrator reliable. There is a chronological order throughout the story. Direct speech is used a couple of times, but does not dominate the story. Again it is simply the narrator telling his father's moving story. Despite the narrators comments, he is quite objective in his storytelling, it doesn't seem like he hates Eula or any of the characters, and it doesn't seem like he pity his father that much. The story takes place at the time tractors started to take over the farming and therefore setting mules out of work. The narrator's grandfather "...goes to Nashville and buys two International Harvester tractors for eighteen hundred dollars, cash..." In the United States The International Harvester and Co. constructed their first tractor in the year 1906. The narrator's father's story takes place when the father is ...

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