Plums Failing Well by Linda Gregg uses a challenging tone to make the reader question ‘Is a fail, really a fail?’. Linda Gregg personifies plums to demonstrate how a failure can actually be seen as an achievement from a different perspective. From a human’s point of view, a plum’s objective in life is to become ripe and be eaten by a human; and anything less is considered a failure. However, the author explains that even if a plum falls out of a tree, it can also be decomposed on the earth and eaten by other organisms other than humans. The idea of seeing all of the successes in a failure can be translated to humans and everything we do. So instead of magnifying into the acute failure that occurs, we can broaden our perspectives
