Freeman X

English 10

Short Story Anthology

(To supplement the book The Story and its Writer)

Dr. Freeman

I.                   Objective Fiction:

           Introduction to Objective Fiction

1.      Grimm Brothers’ Tales (and Bruno Bettelheim’s essays on them)

a.      Hansel and Gretel

b.     Red-Riding Hood

2.      The False Prophet  (S. Ousmane)

3.      The  Lottery*  (S. Jackson)

4.      The Darling*  (A. Chekhov)

5.      The Lady with the Pet Dog*  (A. Chekhov)

6.      The Rocking-Horse Winner*  (D.H. Lawrence)

II.                Third Person Objective, one focus

1.      The Garden Party*  (K. Mansfield)

2.      Paul’s Case*  (W. Cather)

3.      The Pig (J. O’Hara)

4.      The Swimmer*  (J. Cheever)

5.      The Chain  (T. Wolfe)

6.      The Jilting of Granny Weatherall*  (K. A. Porter)

7.  A Rose for Miss Emily*  (W. Faulkner)

III.             Memoir

1.      Old Chief Mshlanga*  (D. Lessing)

2.     Talking to the Dead (Sylvia Wattanabe)

3.      A Father’s Story  (A. Dubus)

IV.             Detached Autobiography

Battle Royal*  (R. Ellison)

The Body Snatcher (R. L. Stevenson)

B.     Wordworth (V.S. Naipaul)

V.                Subjective Narrative

1.      Cathedral*  (R. Carver)

2.      A&P*  (J.  Updike)

3.      Gimpel the Fool (I. B. Singer)

4.      The Cask of Amontillado*  (E. A. Poe)

VI.             Diary Narration

1.      The Yellow Wallpaper*  (C.P. Gilman)

2.      The Horla  (G. de Maupassant)

VII.          Letter Narration

1.      The Sandman (E.T.A. Hoffman)

VIII.       Dramatic Monologue

1. The Little  Red Hen (M. Atwood)

2.     In a Grove (A. Ryunosuke)

3.      The Passenger (V. Nabokov)

IX.              Interior Monologue

1.      The Marks on the Wall  (V. Woolf)

Note:  An * indicates that this story is available in your textbook; otherwise, if it is not linked to an on-line file, it will be provided in class.