Theory into Practice: Narrative Analysis of the ShortStory “Municipality and Stray Dogs”

The intention, this study was launched with, was to apply twonarrative structure models of Roland Barthes and A. J. Griemas on ashort story. For that purpose, the short story titled ‘Municipality andstray dogs’ was selected, which is written by well-known Sindhi shortstory writer, Khairu-un-nisa Jaffery. The paper finds the models andits implications to the fiction. In this context, through this paper, firstof all Roland Barthes’s five codes were analysed and applied on thestory, next the model propounded by A. J. Griemas was applied to thestory and finally conclusion was given..