Short Story Essays

The short story “They’re not your husband” by Raymond carver focuses on multiple different themes. Earl is a jobless salesman who is embarrassed with the appearance of his wife Doreen and becomes very controlling over her. The conversation between two man talking about the way that his wife looks triggered …

Please answer the questions in full sentences. Your answers should refer to specific events from the text. Provide direct quotations wherever possible. Reread the opening paragraph of the story. Why do you think the author begins this way? Why is it effective? I think the author begun this way because …

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is a powerful story that covers all aspects of discrimination in 1930’s Alabama. The novel is about long-standing prejudice and hypocrisy in a small southern town. It is a snapshot of how easy it is to judge and be judged by a community, …

In Certainty, the two stories “Araby” by James Joyce and “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne are both stories about change. These stories manage the understanding of growing up and recognition of the truth, Joyce shows the maturation of a young boy into a man, while Hawthorne tells about a …

Mr. and Mrs. Baby is a short story that follows the repetitive life of Bob Baby and his wife Babe Baby, Mr. and Mrs. Baby are vague characters living an extremely hollow life in the hazy place of modern existence. Mr. and Mrs Baby lead a repetitious life wake up, …

The Tell-Tale Heart is a short story written Edgar Allan Poe and was first edited and published in January 1843 by Robert Carver and James Russell Lowell, the proprietors of in the short-lived inaugural issue of The Pioneer: A Literary and Critical Magazine. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a classic gothic …

This is a true story. Victor Quintero, a seventeen years old high school-er missing his left arm, sat quietly in the patient seat. Victor closed his eyes, as he kind of still couldn’t believe he was in a brain-research laboratory. “Where do you feel that?” Dr. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran asked …

Poverty might be thought of as the state where people have little or no food and few material possessions. Khamsing Srinawk and Karl Sealy successfully and vividly convey the effects of poverty in their short stories, The Gold-Legged Frog and The Pieces of Silver by using a wide range of …

The story of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen revolves around the actual words ‘pride’ and ‘prejudice’. Pride is where a haughty attitude shown by somebody who believes, often unjustifiably, that he or she is better than others. Her pride prevented her from mixing with those she considered her social …

The two stories that are being compared are “the landlady” by Roald Dahl and “the open window” by Saki. Both stories are earlier than the middle twentieth century. The two short stories have many similarity and difference in dealing with suspense and deception. The narrative perspective of both stories are …