Lydia Davis's prose does not fit into the usual framework at all and may seem bizarre or extravagant to some. Sometimes her stories have no plot, and sometimes they even look like literary miniatures, consisting of only a few phrases. However, no matter how eccentric the form that Davis chooses for her works, and no matter how strange her characters may look, this prose is extraordinarily talented and psychologically reliable, and in the characters, for all their non-triviality, we recognize ourselves deep down.