Essays on Short Story

Wow, can you imagine in the nineteenth century, females started the revolution that opened doors for other females worldwide to share their creativity and artistry with no boundaries. Within history, females were banned or discouraged in attempting to pursue a career in arts. Even with the backlash, rejection, and discouragement, females never stopped. Females continued...

Raymond Carver was a Famous short story writer. An American literary icon who has kept a place for himself as one of the all-time most celebrated writers of prose. Carver tragically died at the young age of Fifty from Lung Cancer. This essay will explore how Carvers nine short stories and one poem “Lemonade” in...

Symbolism is when the use of symbols are used to represent ideas and qualities. I will be explaining how my three short stories involve symbolism. Effective and powerful use of symbolism can easily be seen in the classic short stories “The Possibility of Evil’,” The Lottery”, and “Harrison Bergeron”. In “The Possibility of Evil” Shirley...

Many kids today want to become successful in life either doing what they love or doing what they have to do to be successful with or without support. In “Two Kinds” and “Rules of The Game” by Amy Tan, both the main characters Jing-mei and Waverly have the same nationality and somewhat the same age....

Say you see someone you know drive by while you’re walking home from work and they ask if you need a ride. Little do you know, the person driving is seeking revenge and before you know it, you’re in this person’s car and they kill you. In the story “A Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar...

The short story “Dinner at Noon” by Ethel Wilson speaks about the roles of people and genders in society possibly in the early 1900s. In the story, a family is welcomed by Matthew Arnold an intellectual man. The protagonist in the story, Topaz, among all of her siblings determines to be noticed by the guest...

Raman Mundair’s short story ‘Day Trippers ‘ is from the anthology Closure from 2015. The genre of the story is a short story. In the short story I will analyze the narrator and point of view, make a characterization of the main characters, discuss the conflict in the story and talk about the theme of...

In Joyce Carol Oates’ short story “Life after High School”, Zachary Graff, the protagonist faces a dilemma in 1959 where he tries to express himself freely yet in within the limits of a conservative society. Oates describes the main characters, Zachary and Sunny using clear specific details; she incorporates both verbal and dramatic irony. Oates...

Amy Tan, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, is a Chinese American author who was born and raised in California and attended numerous colleges to pursue her writing ambitions. Tan, who was once a rebellious teen, wrote the fictional short story “Two Kinds”, revealing the strained relationship between a mother and a daughter using the character...

The short stories “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”, written by Flannery O’Connor in 1953, and “A Rose for Emily”, written by William Faulkner are both excellent examples of Southern Gothicism. Southern Gothicism is a literary genre, which often involves disturbed characters doing rather disturbing things. The main characters in each of these stories...