Part One Structure
Chapter 1 Plot
John Updike A & P
Graham Greene The Destructors
Chapter 2 Character
James Joyce Araby
Eudora Welty A Worn Path
Chapter 3 Setting and Atmosphere
Flannery O' Connor Everything That Rises Must Converge
Doris Lessing The Old Chief Mshlanga
Chapter 4 Point of View
Frank O' Connor First Confession
John Cheerer The Swimmer
Chapter 5 Theme
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Harrison Bergeron
Richard Wilbur A Game of Catch
Chapter 6 Style, Tone and Mood
Nadine Gordimer The Train from Rhodesia
Tobias Wolff In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
Chapter 7 Irony, Humor, Satire and Paradox
Shirley Jackson The Lottery
Bernard Malamud The Magic Barrel
Chapter 8 Symbol, Allegory, Fantasy and Absurdity
Ann Beattie Dwarf House
Donald Barthelme Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby
Part Two Interpretation
Chapter 9 Moral-Philosophical Approach
Isaac Bashevis Singer Gimpel the Fool
Kay Boyle Astronomer's Wife
Chapter 10 Historical-Biographical Approach
Ernest Hemingway Indian Camp
F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited
Chapter 11 Formalistic Approach
James Thurber The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Said (H. H. Munro) The Open Window
Chapter 12 Psychological Approach
William Faulkner A Rose for Emily
E. B. White The Second Tree from the Comer
Chapter 13 Mythological-Archetypal Approach
Chapter 14 Sociological Approach
Chapter 15 Structural-Semiotic Approach
Chapter 16 Reader-Response Apperoach
Appendixes
Bibliography