"To my surprise this brought from her the story about the cornfield which she had evidently quite forgotten telling me, twice before." (Fisher). 9. Something that i found interesting about this was how Minnie had, every time, forgotten about already have told this story to her niece. She told the story a total of three times, and yet every time she told it, she was, according to her, telling it for the first time. I believe this is supposed to help emphasize Fisher's point about how memory deteriorates and changes as we get older. Minnie doesn't seem to remember telling the narrator the story the first two times, perhaps due to the fact that it has slipped her mind. Also, each time she tells the story it changes drastically from the last time she told it. This could be due to the fact that she is coming to terms with how it actually occurred, or she is telling the story at different times to get different points across. An alternative explanation to the changes in the telling of the story would support why Minnie keeps forgetting that she already told the narrator the story. The fact that her mind is deteriorating. She could be changing the story because she is constantly, as time progresses, losing pieces of the truth of the story. This would all tie to Fisher's point that memory of certain events fade, and change as you grow older and start to forget the whole truth.