Short Story Essay Examples

To demonstrate your understanding of a specific issue (race, gender, class, psychological), choose two of the following literary works and evaluate them with the same critical perspective. The works to choose from include, but are not limited to: Toni Cadre Bambina’s “The Lesson,” Counter Culled’s “Incident,” Jamaica Candid’s “Girl,” Julia Olivarez’s “How I Learned to […]

It was six a.m., and the buzzing of the alarm clock was all that could be heard throughout my room. It was time for me to wake up and prepare myself for school. I slowly dragged my feet across the floor towards the dresser, dreading what Sops, Live, and Leg had planned for me that […]

They travel to a seaside town, for example Portsmouth or Brighton, which Is located about 2 hours south from London. The two mall characters live In a bohemian area themselves. On their journey they are confronted with the outskirt of London, which is very dilapidated and in decay. Everything seems to be falling apart. “This […]

They moved her to Cincinnati, where for a month she spent the greater part o f every day in a room of beveled glass windows, sifting through photographs of the life she’d I ivied and left behind. But it is difficult work, suffering, and in its own way a kind of art, and finally she […]

In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses various aspects of narrative to bring the story alive and help the reader become immersed in it. In the duration of the first few chapters the reader is introduced to each of the main characters needed for the story and by Chapter 4 almost all of the […]

The Hollow of Karakura Town Written by Eric Spicer. Karakura, a small town in Japan, is home to a solitary teenager who lives isolated within his “house”. Getsuga Kurosaki, aged 17 and sporting pure white hair and skin, resides in a containment cell designed to prevent his escape. He is kept under watch by two […]

New Historicism in short story “The Diamond Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant I will analyze the short story “The Diamond Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. We can read and learn the story to make a clear about the new historicism which can be seen from author life and what he was trying to invent from […]

Commentary on “The Dead” Dubliners, a collection of short stories by James Joyce is set in the early twentieth century Dublin. Dubliners overwhelms its’ readers with the harsh realities of Ireland’s culture during this chaotic period of time. In the final story, “The Dead”, readers are introduced to Gabriel Conroy, the favorite nephew of the […]

Walsh’s short story The Quiet Man introduces a few interesting characters, but one I found very intriguing wbas a man named Big Liam O’Grady. Big Liam was one of the main characters who played a huge role in the story. Big Liam may have played the “Bad guy” role in this story, but even the […]

The film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1920s literary piece, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” depicts the life of a man who is born in his eighties and ages in reverse, causing people to observe that he appears to become younger with each passing year. The theme of the time travelers tale of Benjamin […]

“Helen on 86th street” by Wendi Kaufman is about a 12 year old girl who tries out for a lead part in her school play. The play was about the Trojan War and when results rolled around she had gotten a smaller part, and was extremely jealous of Helen who made the main role. Vita […]

Unreeling by Kent Thompson is a very short story, confusing at that. The story starts with the narrator saying that Helen, presumably his wife or partner, has left him and moved back to 1930. Either this is meant literally or figuratively, but looking at it realistically, the author probably meant that Helen’s mind has moved […]

Something upstairs is a story based on a ghost written by Avi. The exceptional visualization and peculiar imaginative fashion of Avi is something for which he has always been known for. Numerous children’s books have been written by Avi which the young readers admire with enthusiasm. His work includes mysteries, adventure stories, fantasies, historical novels, […]

“El Tonto del Barrio” is set in a small Mexican village where the residents share a close bond. The protagonist of the story, Romero, is considered the village fool but is still valued by the community. Despite his peculiarities, Romero contributes by helping others with their tasks and is repaid with kindness. The text discusses […]

The materialist economy is the focus of Annie Leonard’s “The Story of Stuff”, wherein she delves into the well-known process involving extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and disposal. Discussing every stage of the system, the writer highlights the notable implications that arise particularly in the political, social, and environmental aspects of the world. As demonstrated with […]

The short story, Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield is written in third person. The story is being narrated in a manner of speaking. The reader is able to get an unbiased understanding of the main character. The point of view of the story can change the way a reader understands it. Had the story been […]

Meeting the most perfect girl or boy suitable to your likings is a very rare situation when on a busy street. However, the narrator in this short story has no problem seeing this girl, because she stands out, in his eyes, even in a very narrow side street. Unfortunately, he misses the opportunity to meet […]

“The writing style of Raymond Carver’s short story entitled “Elephant” represent a simplistic, yet strong style of writing that is reminiscent of the great work of Earnest Hemmingway. There are several ways in which the writing style within Elephant harkens back to the stylistics of Hemmingway. Carver always goes straight to the point; like Hemmingway […]

In the essay “The Step Not Taken” by Paul D’Angelo, the narrator takes the reader on his personal journey to find a satisfactory way to respond to another’s suffering. This story follows the basic plot structure of a monomyth: the separation, the struggle and initiation and the return and reintegration. In the beginning of the […]

When we are first introduced to Mr Salgado we notice that he is a loner, a man who does not associate and socialise that much. We do know though that he is a wise man, a mentor to Triton an elven year old boy who is a servant at the Salgado household. We are also […]

We wanted to come up with something original for our group and have contrast within our performance so it would make our piece different and much more interesting which I feel would help the audience pick up on our hidden message of ‘life’s too short to argue’. We immediately came up with the idea of […]

This passage is about Albion Gidley Singer who we see in the first paragraph as a loving , caring and responsible father. As we go further into the passage we see him changing for the worse and later he ends up raping his daughter out of frustration and also little bit of jealousy. The story […]