In a short story “Words”, published in 1985, Carol Shields introduces her main character Ian, who goes to the international conference to represent his northern country on climate change, and where he meets Isobel. It is not for her attractive appearance, though he sees that “her neck is slender, her waist narrow and her legs long and brown”, it is for her amazing articulation, her wit and her voice “as rare and fine as a border of gold leaf” that he falls in love with (Shields 238). Here the narrator is using a simile to show Isobel’s unique voice. The main focus in this story is the excessive use of the words, their meaning or lack of any words at all. It is Isobel who teaches Ian basic Spanish words that he translates back in English. At the beginning of a story, Shields chooses simple vocabulary, such as “table, chair, glass,, mouth” that describes and makes a parallel to the exciting and happy surrounding with cool drinks, café, streets, and people around her characters. It is a perfect place for them to promise in two languages, but most importantly with their eyes, without too many words, “to love each other for ever” (239). Shields opens a new situation or reveals a different time frame with each paragraph of the story. Now ten years later, Ian, already married to Isobel, goes to the same conference. In this part of the story, the speaker makes a parallel and comparison of how Ian has changed from the time he was at the conference with Isobel, where he missed the sessions to enjoy that time with her, and how he pays attention to every detail in the conference now. Here at the conference he learns that it is the excessiveness of the words that increases the temperature of the earth’s crust and creates “lakes of fire”. The narrator creates an allusion and mystery in her fable by telling a reader that “proliferation of language”, carefully chosen words and terms can destroy the world (French 183). This statement shows exaggeration and mockery. Shields raises a quandary that exists in every society and every political matter – too many discussions and no action: “a case of head-in-the-sand human nature being” (239). These discussions could go endlessly if not Ian’s passion and care about our planet. For his sincere and passionate speech, so powerful and devoted, no one has been daring to interrupt him. It is the first time that the narrator provides physical feature