Essays on Short Story

Every person has their own story. In the novel “The Things They Carried”, by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien talks about his experiences of being thrown into the Vietnam war as a young innocent soldier and explains how not only did he become strongly affected by the…

In “A Rose for Emily” the narrator talks about a woman who has a mental illness that is labeled idiosyncratic this illness caused her to suffer and struggle immensely with her instability and with evolving in what happens to be the world around her. Emily…

Can utopia be attained and maintained without suffering or subjugation? This perennial question has garnered the attention of authors Ursula K. LeGuin and Ewan Morrison in their discourse against the dangers of utopian societies. LeGuin, who wrote the esteemed short story “The Ones Who Walk…

 ‘A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings’ is a short story written by a Colombian writer named Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The short story was considered by most as an archetype of magic realism that helps the readers to see reality more closely. The story was…

Someone once said knowledge is power and ignorance is bliss. Society may agree that knowledge is power, but too much power can cause someone to lose themselves. In the movie “Spanglish”, there was a little girl who lived with her mom who worked as a…

  In the Victorian Era the nineteenth century, women had specific roles that were determined by the Cult of Domesticity. Women, in the eyes of men, were seen as lesser in every aspect than men. In this era, some women became known for their poetry…

Every successful author has various writing approaches within their pieces of literature. These writing techniques are much like an artist’s signature at the bottom of a canvased masterpiece, to indicate to viewers and spectators, or in this case, readers, that a piece of work belongs…

Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer whose works have been influential in discussing the life of minorities in America as well as their internal struggles due to race and culture. Some of his most famous works delve into this topic. Specifically, Díaz focused on how…

Halloween At Luke’s by Priya Pasumarthy is a delightful tale that takes place on Halloween. Every year at this time, the Luke family decorate their home on Arrow Street with pumpkins, skeletons, and spooky witches. This year the theme is, “Togetherness is Happiness!” Will this…

Liz was on night shift duty as a waitress in a restaurant that day. She decided to send her gratitude in an innovative way to the firemen. And she did not expect anything in return for her sweet gesture. But those firemen had decided to…

I will never forget my granddad that cut hair at his shop for a living and preached at a Church of Christ church on Sunday. Elmer, as I called granddad, had his own way of doing things and he really enjoyed conversation with his patrons….

James Joyce’s Dubliners is a post-colonial short story cycle that tells stories about life in Dublin at that time. The stories’ unity is shown “by several different themes and images” such as “religious images and ideas” (Murphy 97; Ghiselin, 39). One of those religious images…

Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer, best known for writing about the vast scenery of the American heartland and the pioneers who settled there during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Cather drew inspiration from life in Nebraska after her family relocated there…

I read the story “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather. As I started reading the story, I understand the setting, and the time period. The story holds the reader from the beginning and lets her reader to analyze the reader. The story talks about the boy…

In both Paul’s Case and A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather main characters find escape in music. Paul is a troubled young soul who is having a hard time finding purpose in this world. Paul soon finds happiness at Carnegie Hall Theatre he falls in…