CP & YANI

I think the major difference in these two stories versus the rest in Bowles' collection is that they are written in the first person.  Due to the stories being written in first person, I believe it is harder to understand exactly how the characters feel or what their motives are.

Both stories deal with issues in the family.  Both narrators either have no regard for their sibling or have negative feelings toward them.  Both stories deal with mentally derranged characters.  In YANI the narrator is either schizophrenic or has some other type of mental disorder because she doesn't have a sense of reality.  She thinks she can control things with her mind and is caught placing stones in dead people's mouths.  Although the narrator in CP is not mentally ill, he doesn't seem to have a real grip on reality either.  He does not want to accept his son's homosexuality or the fact that his son is abusing children, so he takes him far from the people who can "judge."

Bowles is very good at building up both characters.