American short stories

The story takes place during World War I. An Italian nurse meets a wounded American soldier. They fall in love. Due to circumstance, they're separated from each other. The American soldier goes back to America to get a job. The Italian nurse, Luz, stays in Italy to open her own hospital in Pordonone. In the time that they’re apart, the Italian nurse has an affair with an Italian major. Luz writes to the American soldier telling him that their relationship was just a boy and girl love. The nurse…

family culture is completely different from her friend Denise. The little girl in the story also sees herself as part of the american world because she states activities that an American would do with her friend, Denise. For example, her and her friend watch boys together. The little girl "feels funny using chopsticks" because it's not an American trait, but she loves hotdogs. Though this little girl in not American she still acts and feels like an…

Orne Jewett to reach artistic maturity. “A White Heron” was Jewett’s best known short story. Sarah Orne Jewett’s first ambition in life was to become a doctor, however her poor health had prevented this is happening. Jewett’s father would take her along with him on his medical calls to help build her strength back up. While on the trips, Jewett found her writing material. Once graduation, Jewett began writing short stories, as well as poetry, children’s books, and two novels. Jewett was…

his collection of stories called, Men Without Women. Hemingway tied in his personal struggles of building meaningful relationships in to each of his short stories. Hills Like White Elephants is a short story about a young couple struggling with the idea of having an abortion or keeping their unborn child. However, since the word “abortion” is nowhere to be found in the story, Hemingway uses themes, motifs and symbols to help the reader understand the meaning of the short story. At the beginning…

Hills Like White Elephants is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway, the 20th century American novelist and short story writer. The story starts out with a couple who is sitting outside of a train station in Spain. This short story is consisted of mostly dialogue between an American man and a woman who goes by the name Jig. The woman is apparently pregnant by the man. Throughout Hemingway 's short story, the author utilizes numerous symbols, metaphorical comparisons and beautiful diction in…

“The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin are both short stories that take place in short periods of time and focus on the relationship of a couple. Though the stories differ greatly, they are similar in that they both include the use of a train as a symbol and in their focus of the women in the relationships introduced. The trains in both stories are the most significant similarity because they represent the different futures that Jig and Mrs. Mallard could have. While Hemmingway leaves his short…

early American fiction writers who became very famous through their short fiction horror writing. Some of these writers were considered Gothic writers because of how their romantic short stories will often end in tragedy. These early American fiction writers were Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe. I will be clarifying how Washington, Nathaniel, and Edgar use different writing unique styles, various literary themes, and forms in each of their short stories.…

Short stories are “an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot.” (Merriam – Webster) These can have many differences and similarities. These factors could be the setting, the plot, the characters, point of view, tone, symbolism, theme, language, narrated time, content and more. “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he…

Stephen King is one of the most respected novelists in America. Aside from his horrifying novels King has a vast variety of short stories, which has inspired countless films. There is a certain selection of short stories that has revealed Stephen King’s view of Americans as a whole, a reoccurring theme that represents his view of Americans is that each individual has certain difficulties that causes great impact on their lives. For example, in King’s novella, The Body, each character, which are…

but “the lottery” was a short story published by the New Yorker Magazine on the June 26, 1948. The author wrote this story right after World War II ended in Europe. The Jackson story became the most widely known American short story. This short story brought biggest shock to readers who read “the Lottery”. In a story, there are three important things; they are - Allegorys, symbols, and name of characters. Shirley Jackson…