Essays on Short Story

Yellow Fish Ambai’s “Yellow Fish” is a short story about a woman’s leisure on the beach and her discovery of a fish. She watches the fishermen return to shore with their catches and sort through them, she spots an unwanted, helpless, yellow fish thrown away on the sand. The author characterizes the narrator’s compassion as…

Short stories are always much more difficult to review compared to novels, simply because the author uses so many metaphors and symbols within. Usually the audience reads it, and then analyzes it as a whole. In “The Little Green Monster” Haruki Murakami tells a story about a strange green monster that digs it way out…

Initiation is a story of group exclusivity, self exploration and personal transformation of a girl in Lansing High. It is the story of Millicent, who discovers that being an individual offers more opportunities than being part of a sorority. In Initiation, the author, Sylvia Plath expresses the hardships Millicent undergoes to become a member of…

( 1 ) Some people choose their Canis familiariss. and some Canis familiariss choose their people. The Pengelly household had no say in the choosing of Lob ; he came to them in the 2nd manner. and really resolutely. ( 2 ) It began on the beach. the summer when Sandy was five. Don. her…

Ann Petry was born in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. She is white and was populating in a vicinity where the bulk of the people were black. Anyhow, Ann Petry when through her childhood without any biass against racial difference. It was merely subsequently that she encountered racism. Then, she studied and became a druggist but in…

The Analysis of the Narrator in Poe’s Short Story “The Tell-Tale Heart” The history of American literature would not be complete without its prominent representative, the creator of visionary works, both poetic and prose, Edgar Allan Poe. Poe’s fevered imagination gave birth to literary works of high emotional power and the deep paranoiac despair. The…

The theme of the short story “I Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys (1976) is death and the journey home. Without implying literal death, this story is characterized as an allegory, which is described by Clugston (2010) as “a fictional work in which the setting, characters, plot and other elements are all symbols,…

”Reunion” is a short story, written by John Cheever. John William Cheever was an American short story writer and novelist, who lived 70 years from May 27, 1912 to June 18, 1982. He is known worldwide as “the Chekhov of the suburbs” and for his many short stories and novels.1 The short story “Reunion”, which…

Short Story Comparison Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Saki’s “Sredni Vashtar” are two unfamiliar literary pieces to me. I have never read Walker and Saki’s pieces. These two stories have their own similarities and differences that I find interesting. Each of the authors’ life and race is definitely an influence to the development of their…

On the Sidewalk Bleeding by Evan Hunter is a short story about a boy named Andy. Andy was a 16 years old and had just been stabbed below the ribs. Andy was part of a gang called “The Royals”. He just stopped by the shop only to buy some cigarettes and the next moment he’s…