A short story is brief but has to contain meaningful story to make readers interested. Even if a story has mass of ideas or has a good and long structures, people will not focus on reading and start quitting reading if it is too complicated. Also, a story affects totality. Totality can define unity. So, a short story unifies ideas by holding each person’s single emotion. Edgar Allan Poe, who made the theory of short story, insists a short story is all about “brevity and the necessary coherence which gives the effect of totality” (Lawrence 274). Unless this theory was written in nineteen centuries, it still affects a modern short story, for it is a fundamental philosophy for all authors in order to write a good short story. Therefore, I agree
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Edgar Allan Poe writes “short story is a brief tale which can be told or read at one sitting.” This philosophy defines two definitions. First, a short story has to be short. Second, it has to capture people’s interests and hold people’s coherence during reading. Therefore, a writer should hold people’s concentrate from the beginning to the end in a short time. In a short story, if there are more than a single emotion and too many ideas, it will be very distractive for readers. They might not remember what they read and what a main idea is in a story. For example, If I Were A Man, which is written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1914. This story shows a main character’s emotion and events, which is suddenly a main character, who is woman, becoming a man. So, the story holds reader’s attention by the interesting story in 1900s. It can be said that the focus of the “ideal woman” in early nineteen century. During that time period, women were valuable based on appearance, and treated as women are inferior. Independence and freedom from their husband is what women’s wishes in nineteen century. Through character Mollie Mathewson, Gilman illustrates women’s hidden wants in the past society during early 19th century. Therefore, this story holds reader’s attention by socially interesting story in 19 century, for the story expresses representing women’s hidden wish of in 1900s’
Edgar Allan Poe writes “short story is a brief tale which can be told or read at one sitting.” This philosophy defines two definitions. First, a short story has to be short. Second, it has to capture people’s interests and hold people’s coherence during reading. Therefore, a writer should hold people’s concentrate from the beginning to the end in a short time. In a short story, if there are more than a single emotion and too many ideas, it will be very distractive for readers. They might not remember what they read and what a main idea is in a story. For example, If I Were A Man, which is written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1914. This story shows a main character’s emotion and events, which is suddenly a main character, who is woman, becoming a man. So, the story holds reader’s attention by the interesting story in 1900s. It can be said that the focus of the “ideal woman” in early nineteen century. During that time period, women were valuable based on appearance, and treated as women are inferior. Independence and freedom from their husband is what women’s wishes in nineteen century. Through character Mollie Mathewson, Gilman illustrates women’s hidden wants in the past society during early 19th century. Therefore, this story holds reader’s attention by socially interesting story in 19 century, for the story expresses representing women’s hidden wish of in 1900s’