P E N G U I N
A C A D E M I C S
A POCKET ANTHOLOGY
SIXTH EDITION
Edited by
R. S. Gwynn
Lamar University
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Preface
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Introduction
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The Telling of the Tale 1
The Short Story Genre 3
Reading and Analyzing Short Fiction
Plot 7
Characterization u
Point of View 13
Theme 15
Setting 16
Style and Symbol 18
Writing About Short Fiction
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FICTION 29
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Minister's Black Veil 31
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Ligeia 43
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
AWhite Heron 58
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
Mother Savage 6g
Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
The Story of an Hour y6
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
The Yellow Wallpaper 79
Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
Roman Fever 95
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Paul's Case 107
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Araby 127
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
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Sweat 133
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
A Rosefor Emily 144
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Up in Michigan 154
John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
The Chrysanthemums i$g
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
The Man Who Was Almost a Man 170
Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
A Worn Path 181
John Cheever (1912-1982)
Reunion 190
Ralph Ellison (1914-1995)
A Party Down at the Square 193
Shirley Jackson
The Lottery 200
Hisaye Yamamoto {b. 1921)
Seventeen Syllables 208
Grace Paley (1922-2007)
Wants 220
Fiannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
Everything That Rises Must Converge 223
Richard Yates (1926-1992)
Doctor Jack-o'-Lantem 238
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1928)
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings 252
Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas 259
Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)
Dead Men's Path 266
Alice Munro (b. 1931)
The Bear Came Over the Mountain 269
Raymond Carver (1938-1988)
Cathedral 295
Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 310
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
Happy Endings 326
Bobbie Ann Mason (b. 1940)
Shiloh 330
Alice Walker (b. 1944)
Everyday Use 344
Tim O'Brien (b. 1946)
The Things They Carried 353
Tim Gautreaux (b. 1947)
Died and Gone to Vegas 370
Jamaica Kincaid (b, 1949)
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D a g o b e r t o Gilb (b. 1950)
Look on the Bright Side 389
Sandra Cisneros (b.1954)
Woman Hollering Creek
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Louise Erdrich (b. 1954)
The Red Convertible
411
Gish Jen (b. 1955)
In the American Society
420
Lorrie Moore (b. 1957)
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Daniel Orozco {b. 1957)
Orientation 441
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966)
How to Become a Writer
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This is What It means to say phoenix, Arizona
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Appendix: Stories Listed by Form, Genre, and Theme 459
Acknowledgments
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Index of Critical Terms 465
Additional Titles of Interest
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