American short stories

“Desiree’s Baby” is a short story that takes place before the Civil War in 1893. Madame Valmonde hasn't seen Desiree and her baby for over a month. As Madame’s driving to her home, she recalls all the memories she's had with Desiree as a child. Desiree was abandoned by people who assume to be Texans but Madame Valmonde didn't see it as abandonment, she saw it as a gift from God because she wasn't able to have children. 18 years later, Desiree falls in love with Armand Aubigny and decide to get married

by the American culture. "Reaction to Official Request 9066" by Dwight Okita, and "Mericans" by Sandra Cisneros the two creators build up the point of American personality. In Okita's ballad, American character has more to do with how you encounter culture than with where your family originated from. Both Okita's lyric and Cisneros' short story demonstrate that social legacy and physical appearances don't figure out being American. In light of "Mericans", the primary indication of American personality

The present study is based on the idea of displacement as the major theme of the selected short stories of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of maladies”. The book contains nine short stories and each one of them deals with the question of identity, alienation, and plight of those who are physically and psychologically displaced. But I would like to limit my studies to the three short stories from the collection viz. “When Mr. Pirzada came to dine”, Interpreter of Maladies”, and “Mrs. Sen’s”. The migration

restricted human spirit. It had no trust in the moral conventions and codes of the past. One of the examples of modernism, that breaks the conventions and traditions of literature prior to Modernism, is Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants”. The short story uses plot, symbolism, setting, dialogue, and a new style of writing to allow human spirit to experiment with meaning and interpretation. Some of the characteristics of Modernism are: a desire to break conventions and established

first writer, is best known by his famous short story “Rip Van Winkle” which emphasizes in the struggle of finding a new identity after the American Revolution because of the characters that appear, the symbolism, and the setting where the story is placed. The first reason about why “Rip Van Winkle” is about the struggle finding an identity is because of the characters that appear. Rip Van Winkle, the protagonist in the short story, is

book Interpreter of the Maldives is a collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri that examines the relationship between Indian and American culture. Lahiri does this by using motifs, patterns and themes that recur throughout the short stories. The relationship between the two cultures is not only evident in romantic relationships of Indian-Americans, but in Lahiri’s description of clothing. Lahiri's description of clothing in the short stories, Sexy, This Blessed House and the Third and Final Continent

Hemingway. This short story explores how a couple waiting for a baby decides whether to keep the baby or to proceed with an abortion. The male, who’s referred to as “the American” is trying to persuade his significant other to have an abortion. She seems to be doubtful about it, until she decides that she will feel empty without her unborn baby, but it resumes to either her baby or be together with the American (Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants). The metaphor that the story revolves around are

novelist, Eudora Welty, has written many short stories and novels. Welty’s work is mainly focused with great precision on the regional manners of people inhabiting a small Mississippi town that resembles her own birthplace and the Delta country. Welty was born on April 13, 1909 and was raised by her close-knit and loving parents. In fact, Welty inherited the love of language from her mother. During her lifetime, Welty has earned many awards from her short stories and novel, such as the Pulitzer Prize

Minister’s Black Veil is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that more or less romanticizes the madness behind sins. In this short story, the Minister Mr. Hooper, wears a Black Veil that hangs from his forehead which he cannot seem to explain to anyone about. Everyone in town begins to question and wonder what the meaning behind this black veil is. As Reverend Hooper explained to his ex fiancee, the black veil signifies a secret sin that everyone has, but never reveals to anyone until, “Judgment

of Symbols On "Say Yes" The author of the short story "Say Yes," Tobias Wolff, uses a number of symbols to express his different views on racism throughout the story. Wolff uses this literary device to express a message to his readers. Symbols, something representing something else by association resemblance or convention, are used efficiently in this short story. Wolff uses colors to symbolize a hatred for an alternative race in this short story. The husband more than once makes reference