Complex sentences in Jhumpa Lahiri's when MR. Pirzada came to dine : a stylistic study

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Short fiction tends to be less complex than novels.

Short fiction concentrates on only one event, and has only one plot, a single setting, a limited number of characters and covers a short period of time ( Pasco, 1991: 407).

As far as postmodern fiction is concerned, postmodern fiction is a form of literature which is marked, both stylistically and ideologically, by a reliance on such literary conventions as fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, often unrealistic and downright impossible plots, games, parody, paranoia, dark humor and authorial self-reference (Butler, 2002; 28-33).

Nicol (2009: 1) comments that postmodern fiction readers are presented with a challenge that they have to work for figuring it out, for questioning their own responses, and for examining their own views about the way fiction works,