Artist 417 Jack London
4 Approaching Fiction: Responding in Writing 83 Ernest Hemingway, Cat in the Rain 83 Responses: Annotations and Journal Entries 86
Student Essay: Hemingway’s American Wife 90
5 Stories and Meanings: Plot, Character, Theme 94 Aesop, The Vixen and the Lioness 94 W. Somerset Maugham, The Appointment in
Samarra 95 Anonymous, Muddy Road 96 Anton Chekhov, Misery 97 Kate Chopin, Désirée’s Baby 104 Alice Walker, Everyday Use 109 Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings 116 William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force 119
6 Narrative Point of View 122 Participant (or First-Person) Points of View 123 Nonparticipant (or Third-Person) Points of View 124 The Point of a Point of View 125
John Updike, A & P 126 Grace Paley, A Man Told Me the Story of His Life 131 Jean Rhys, I Used to Live Here Once 132 Anonymous, The Judgment of Solomon 134
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Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 135
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 142
7 Allegory and Symbolism 149 A Note on Setting 152
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown 152 John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums 162 Eudora Welty, A Worn Path 170 Gabriel García Márquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous
Wings 176 D. H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealer’s Daughter 181 Shirley Jackson, The Lottery 193
8 Students Writing about Stories 200 Prompts for Writing about Plot, Character, Point of View,
Setting, Symbolism, Style, and Theme 200 Fiction into Film 203
Asking Questions, Thinking Critically, and Making Comparisons 203
Film as a Medium 203 Film Techniques 205 Theme 208 Comparing Filmed and Printed Stories 209 Getting Ready to Write 209 Drafting an Essay 210
Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing Arguments about Film 211
Your Turn: Thinking about Filming Fiction 212 Seven Students Write about Short Stories 213
Anne Geraghty Thinks about Character in Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” 213
Student Essay: Revenge, Noble and Ignoble 215 Gender Criticism: A Response to “The Judgment of
Solomon” 218 Student Essay: How Wise Was Solomon? 218
A Feminist Reading of James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” 221
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Working Toward a Thesis: Journal Entries 221 Developing the Thesis: List Notes 222 Student Essay: Walter Mitty Is No Joke 222
A Note on Reading Against the Grain 224 A Sample Student Essay: A Skeptical Look at the Parable of
the Prodigal Son: The Parable of the Shrewd Son 225 Talking about Setting as Symbolic: Notes and an Essay on
Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” 225 Student Essay: Spring Comes to Mrs.Mallard 226
Two Students Interpret Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”: Notes and Essays 230
Student Essay: We All Participate in “The Lottery” 232 Student Essay: Is “The Lottery”Fair? 235
Sample Essay with Documentation 240 Do the Pink Ribbons in Hawthorne’s “Young
Goodman Brown”Have a Meaning? 240
9 A Fiction Writer in Depth: Flannery O’Connor 248 Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find 249 Flannery O’Connor, Good Country People 261 Flannery O’Connor, Revelation 274
On Fiction: Remarks from Essays and Letters 288 From “The Fiction Writer and His Country” 288 From “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern
Fiction” 289 From “The Nature and Aim of Fiction” 289 From “Writing Short Stories” 290 “A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable” 290
On Interpreting “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” 293
10 A Collection of Short Fiction 295 Chris Adrian, Every Night for a Thousand Years 298 Margaret Atwood, Gertrude Talks Back 307 Jorge Luis Borges, The Gospel According to Mark 309 Raymond Carver, Cathedral 313 Oscar Casares, Yolanda 323 Diana Chang, The Oriental Contingent 329 Kate Chopin, The Storm 333 Alice Elliot Dark, In the Gloaming 337
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Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal 350 Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible 360 William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily 367 William Faulkner, Barn Burning 377 Jack Forbes, Only Approved Indians Can Play:
Made in USA 389 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper 391 Patricia Grace, Flies 402 Gish Jen, Who’s Irish? 405 James Joyce, Araby 412 Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist 417 Jack London, To Build a Fire 423 Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh 434 Guy de Maupassant, Mademoiselle 444 Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace 447 Katherine Min, Courting a Monk 453 Lorrie Moore, How to Become a Writer 463 Alice Munro, Boys and Girls 468 Gloria Naylor, The Two 478 Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going,
Where Have You Been? 483 Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried 495 Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl 508 Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart 511 Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado 514 Michele Serros, Senior Picture Day 519 Leslie Marmon Silko, The Man to Send Rain
Clouds 523 Amy Tan, Two Kinds 526 James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 534 Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych 538 John Updike, The Rumor 577
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