The Southpaw

“The Southpaw” is an epistolary story. As your textbook noted, an epistolary story consists of a series of letters between two or more people. For this exercise, imagine that the letters in “The Southpaw” went on after Richard let Janet play in a baseball game. Write two letters, one from Richard and one from Janet. As you write, try hard to imagine the feelings of the two characters after their first baseball game together.