Comparative Study of the Action Pattern in the Short Stories of Mahmoud Teymour and Jamalzadeh

Algerdas Julien Garmas, one of the leading theorists of structuralist narratology, has presented a systematic theory of action model in character analysis, which is very flexible and has a greater capacity for story analysis than other models of theorists. In this descriptive-analytical study, based on library studies, an attempt is made to examine Garmas' pattern of action in the collection of short stories "Al-Shabab and al-Ghaniyat" by Mahmoud Teymour, a contemporary Egyptian writer, and a collection of short stories. "Talkh and Shirin" by Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, a contemporary Iranian writer. The aim of this study is to achieve the degree of conformity of these two effects with Garmas action pattern. The result of this research shows that the short stories of Mahmoud Teymour's "Al-Shabab and Al-Ghaniyat" and Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh's "Talkh and Shirin" are similar in terms of narrative system, small number of characters and multiple roles of actors, with the difference that In the stories of Mahmoud Teymour, the actors are only human; But in Jamalzadeh's stories, the actors are divided into two groups of human and animal characters, and in general, it can be said that the short stories of both authors are compatible with Garmas' theory of action.