Hejinian notes that although certain Stein works (The Good Life of Lady Church Amiably) contain relationships and events ("of the sort that dominated nineteenth-century realist novels"), "Stein doesn't organize them into conventional narratives. Rather than comprising a set of points along a storyline, they are dispersed in a field of contexts that also includes a wide variety of both field and garden flowers [...] and the foods that appear at meals set indoors or out"