Isak Dinesen, “The Immortal Story”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Minister’s Black Veil”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Little Dog”
Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat”
William Faulkner, “That Evening Sun”
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants”
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Everything That Rises Must Converge”
Leslie Marmon Silko, “Yellow Woman”
Jhumpa Lahiri, “Interpreter of Maladies”
Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
Nora Krug, “Kamikaze”
1) Compare how the particular point of view contributes to the total effect and meaning of FIVE of the stories we’ve read this semester.
2) Compare how the particular setting contributes to the plot and meaning of FIVE of the stories we’ve read this semester.
3) Compare the climactic moments in FIVE of the stories we’ve read this semester. Explain and illustrate how the dynamics and effects of the climax are similar and/or different in the five stories.
4) Explore the first and last sentences of FIVE of the stories we’ve read and how they function in relation to the story as a whole. Compare how these opening and closing sentences both introduce and resolve their respective stories.
5) Compare the use and importance of dialogue in FIVE of the stories we’ve read. What is the proportion of dialogue in relation to the narrator’s observations, explanations, and judgments? How important is the dialogue in revealing the characters and meaning? Is there a relationship between the amount of dialogue and the challenge of interpretation?
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