Short Story Essay Examples

Introduction A short story is a short literary form, a brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel, usually involving only a few characters and revolving around a main event. The plot of a short story is usually concise and compact, with the characters and the explanation of the incidents usually not being…

“The Graduation” is an inspirational narrative of Maya Angelou’s 8th class graduation. She uses really powerful descriptive words to explicate her milieus for illustration. Unlike the white high school. Lafayette County Training School distinguished itself by holding neither lawn. nor hedges. nor tennis tribunal. nor mounting Hedera helix. Its two edifices ( chief schoolroom. the…

For this final journal entry, I have selected the short story “Together and Apart” by Virginia Woolf. This short story is a nice eight pages long, and tells the story of a Miss Ruth Anning and Mr. Roderick Serle through an omniscient narrator. Mr. Serle and Miss. Anning were introduced for the first time by…

‘The Chrysanthemums’ describes the story is a strong but frustrated woman, Elisa who tries to fit in the masculine world. Her efforts are washed down by the disappointments that give her stress, despite her efforts to be ‘like a man.’ Her experience with the tinker initially brings happiness to her as she feels like she…

Family Values in the Cask of Amontillado The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe is a story not only about revenge, but about family values. It is often said that one should stand by his or her family no matter what, for the reason that family will always be there. Friends are seen as…

In O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and Hurston’s “Sweat”, the author’s both utilize the element of foreshadowing to develop the central plot. The classic short story, A Good Man is Hard to Find, centers around a family taking a vacation to Florida. The trip took a turn for the worst, and the…

It is fair to say, there is no soul walking among us today who’s’ life has not recognized struggle through its passage. In the story “Sonny’s Blues”, Sonny, the narrators’ brother, struggles with drug addiction at a very early age in life. As with everyone in life that has experienced struggle, of any nature, we…

Heading into the final weeks of the semester, we read a few short stories written by various authors. We read “The Flowers,” by Alice Walker, “The Pedestrian,” by Ray Bradbury, “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, and “To Build a Fire,” by Jack London, along with a few others. Among these short stories, it was noticed…

Brian Aldiss’s “Supertoys Last All Summer Long” is a short story that depicts how Monica is alone, David isn’t real, and Henry just feeds into Monica’s loneliness “An overcrowded world is an ideal place in which to be lonely.”(Aldiss 112) David’s sole purpose is to fill a void with Mrs. Swinton, but it is hard…

Flannery O’Connor’s short story could be interpreted in many ways: some people would say that it is a cruel and exaggerated anti-racist moralistic tale while the others would see it as African-American manifestation of hatred. However, both approaches would be biased and, therefore, virtually wrong after all, O’Connor was doing anything but propagating violence and…