Preface
An Introduction to Reading Short Stories
I. Plot
William March
Aesop’s Last Fable
Irwin Shaw
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
O. Henry
After Twenty Years
II. Character
Bernard Malamud
The Magic Barrel
Stephen Crane
The Open Boat
Ernest Hemingway
A Clean, Well-lighted Place
James Thurber
The Catbird Seat
Jack London
The Law of Life
III. Point of View
James Baldwin
Going to Meet the Man
Frank O’Connor
My Oedipus Complex
Ring Lardner
Haircut
William Somerset Maugham
A Friend in Need
IV. Theme
Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince
Sally Benson
The Overcoat
Liam O’Flaherty
Red Barbara
Shirley Jackson
The Lottery
Sherwood Anderson
The Egg