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Katherine Anne Porter wrote a number of unforgettable stories, but certainly my favorite is "The Grave". Focusing upon the few most obtrusive symbols- the ring, the dove, the rabbits, and the grave- the author showed readers the importance of life and death. Story "The Grave" provides some interesting dues to the nature of her personal fable, because the fundamental concepts on which the story rests are that the mind of the writer is the grave of the past and that the art of the writer resurrects the past to a new life and a new meaning. "The Grave," a simple and tremendously powerful little story of two children's contact with the mysteries of life and death, is based on author's own experience. In "The Grave" Porter describes the themes of memory and cycle of life as they have influenced Miranda through the years. One of the main subjects in the story is the theme of memory. The prologue of "The Grave" tells us of the grandmother who literary carries with her the body of her long-dead husband and at last is literally reunited with him as the result of her constancy and possessiveness. The repeatedly opened grave of the grandmother has its appropriate counterpart in the old woman's constant memory of him. The value of her