Living Like Weasels Summary

In the short story “Living like Weasels” Dillard goes into description after locking eyes with a weasel living life in their shoes. After one week of seeing a weasel for the very first time Dillard began to read about them learning their way of life. She begins discussing step by step the of survival a weasel has to face and how wild they can be up until their death amongst an eagle. Around the evening when the sunset she enjoys walking through the woods twenty minutes from her house where she sits on the tree trunk and observes nature. There she experiences a ten-inch-long weasel that was alert and motionless under a wild rose bush spectating her like any animal would. Once he vanished she began to dwell on that moment she had with the weasel