Applying Literary Criticism to a Short Story

After carefully reading the topic 3 Lecture and Appendix 5 in the The Story and Its Writer, choose one form of literary criticism (formalist, psychological, reader-response, etc.) and apply it to one of the short stories assigned during Topic 3.

In a 750-1,000-word essay, discuss how your chosen type of criticism would enlarge a reader's understanding of the story and explain how at least three specific passages of the story could be interpreted using this form of criticism.

Prepare this assignment according to the MLA