Theme Of Can-Can By Arturo Vivante

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Short Short stories Subgenres is a way of expressing oneself through literary or artistic writing. It can be written as a novella or short short story. Short short stories are very short pieces of prose fiction, which are much more condensed than the average short story. Short short stories work well due to some elements like theme, conflict, and bisociation. “Can-Can” by Arturo Vivante is a good short short story that works well for subgenre since it has all the elements that make it stand out. Arturo Vivante chose infidelity and repercussion has the theme for “Can-Can”. The themes of a short story the way for the author to communicate with the readers. In “Can-Can” the theme works well because it doesn’t involve a lot of characters so its

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