His silence is equally significant. This story is very dramatic with the main character breaking out a lot, his wife sleeping alone, and Jonah saying he doesn't love his parents anymore. “The Minimalist” is not dramatic at all, in my opinion. It is set mainly in the head of the protagonist, who spends a lot of time thinking about the color blue. Not exactly dramatic. A clip from that story illustrates this well: "Sometimes I opened my eyes and imagined blue too, a cool, gigantic glacier advancing across the floor" (154). The whole story is almost calm to the point where there is no drama. The action is brought forward in “Cold Little Bird” when Jonah subtly threatens his father to make him the school counselor. You can almost see the bond between father and son tearing apart as he says, “I'd rather not have to say anything about you and mommy. At school. To Mr Fourenay." Finding this forward action through dialogue in “The Minimalist” is much more difficult. The narrator says, “I told him I had failed” (157). From there, she feels like a scammer, leaves, and rides off into the sunset. However, much of the story is not told through dialogue. I'm curious how everyone else will respond