Characteristics Of Traditional Short Stories

These days we read ten short stories, half are traditional short stories, and another half are modernism short story,
By reading the first five short stories, I can see some features of the traditional short stories. Title is the center of the short story, a good title can tell you the main content of the short story. The writers of traditional short stories always use the protagonist or some important thing in the stories as the title. “Eveline” and “The Pious Lady and The Gray Friar” use the name of the protagonist’s name as the title, “The Open Window” and “The Lottery” are the important thing in the stories, and “The Death Of A Government Clerk” directly tells us the grammar of the short story. Most classical short stories start from beginning …show more content…
Though the fictional world was not the real world, it told us some phenomenon about the realistic society at that time. In “The Death Of A Government Clerk”, the author use exaggeration to describe the scary of offed a superior in a different department because he disturbed the superior by his sneezing show us the unequal society. In The Lottery, the author used this story to responding the behindhand of the realistic society. In Eveline, though new life is attractive, family affection is more important to her, so she can just choose to live in her old boring life. The author expressed the depressing of human …show more content…
One thousand readers, one thousand Hamlets, different readers have different understanding to the story. Though the hills may have the special meaning such as pregnancy, we cannot know it actually because the writer did not write specific. “Library of Babel” written by Jorge Luis Borges is the example of no change, no plot and no possibility to make reversal. This short is about the understanding of the universal, the writer just simile the world as a library and describes the details of the library. ”The Aleph” written by the same writer also has no change, this short story also talk about the worldview that the Aleph is the universal. These two short stories are philosophical novels between the unreal and reality. “House taken over” which written by Julio Cortazar also uses the realism way to creative a fictional imagination world. “The Continuity of Parks” written by Julio Cortazar influences the judgment of unreal and reality, and it is also the transition from not-art to art. At first, there is a boundary between art and not art, a boundary between the world in the book and the real world. Then the boundary disappears, because the write do not tell the name of these character and describe the similar environment of the man who read the book and the environment in the book he read. The writer intentionally guides us to confuse the real and unreal and then art is