Point of view in Alfred Edgar Coppard’s "Some Talk of Alexander‪"‬

“Coppard wrote a handful of the best short stories of the English language and […] contributed significantly to the movement of the short story from being a truncated novel to acquiring its own form”. (Frank Edmund Smith)

Alfred Edgar Coppard’s short stories surely have proven worth a closer examination, and that is why I undertake to delve into one his late works,