Short Story Essays

Guy Vanderhaeghe`s story, “The Watcher” is a rousing and intricate story of the eleven year-old boy Charlie. The plot reveals his initiation from innocence to experience when he was forced to stay on his grandmother’s farm. There are several themes in the story, all interacting in many different levels. One …

The story revolves around a compulsively jealous husband, the unnamed first-person narrator of the story. The story opens abruptly, with the narrator sitting on a perch in his cage in a pet store in Houston, having been reincarnated somehow as a yellow-nape Amazon parrot. One day, his former wife, accompanied …

In Albert Maltz’s short story, a perenially unemployed drifter named Jesse Fulton becomes the eponymous Happiest Man On Earth when, after much persuasion, his brother-in-law Tom Brackett reluctantly gives him a job hauling nitroglycerine by truck.             In this story, The Happiest Man On Earth is any individual who has …

The short story “Love, Your Only Mother” by David Michael Kaplan is about a woman who is seemingly writing to her mother who had abandoned her and her father when she was a little girl. This story represents the relationship between a mother and her daughter and that maintaining it …

At the beginning, I would like to say some things about the title of the story. It doesn‘t represent anything significant, because it is only a woman‘s name and reader can‘t forecast what is going to happen in the story. The reader can only guess that Mabel is protagonist‘s name. …

     The definition of marriage in the oriental language Sanskrit corroborates the theme of the short story “The Gift of the Magi.” The word ‘vivaha’ (marriage) is beautifully composed. ‘vaha’ means ‘to flow.’ ‘vi’ means ‘harmoniously together.’ Therefore, the word marriage means to flow together harmoniously. Two distinct individuals, two …

Katherine Mansfield’s story The Fly presents the reader with the emotive process of grieving.  The loss of a man’s son is the climax of the story and will be the main focus of this essay.  This essay will set out to prove that in the human response of grieving, the …

            The short story by Thomas Wolfe entitled “The Far and the Near” shows just how much differently one’s perception of something can change depending on how close they are to the object. The story begins by showing this picturesque view of the house and the surrounding area where the …

The story fictional story, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, written by Bret Harte is a filled with abundant examples of naturalism, realism, and regionalism. Examples of naturalism, realism, and regionalism are shown many times throughout the story and is important for the development of characters, settings, and plots. The short …

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