“Burning Bright” by Ron Rash is a story told in a third person limited point of view. It gives us the inside of a middle-aged woman named Marcie. Marcie is a widow who ends up getting married two years after her first husband Arthur died of a heart attack. This was a tough time for Marcie and the church has noticed so they did a homage where they paid tribute for her husband Arthur. Shortly after this has happened she meets her second husband Carl. Who starts off as a stranger who just shows up to her house asking to do housework, which she finds odd. At the begging of the story, Ron Rash uses a symbolism which we find out the meaning later out in the story. He is talking about wildfires and droughts that Marcie is seeing on tv. As we continue to read the story we see the symbolism where the fire and droughts actually have to with Marcie’s life. Marcie’s first husband died which is the fire and Carl gives her the illusion of a happy love story but in reality, is causing drought in her life.