Short Story Analysis & Summaries

The following short stories have an analysis which includes a summary:

• A&P
• Bread
• The Cask of Amontillado
• Cemetery Path
• Charles
• The Chaser
• Condensed Milk
• Continuity of Parks
• Dead Men’s Path
• Desiree’s Baby
• The Egg
• The Empty Drum
• Everyday Use
• Everything Stuck to Him
• The Falling Girl
• The Father
• The Flowers
• Flowers for Marjorie
• The Gift of the Magi
• Girl
• Good Country People
• An Hour with Abuelo
• In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried
• King of the Bingo Game
• The Landlady
• Lather and Nothing Else
• The Lesson
• Marigolds
• Miss Brill
• Morning Rain
• The Most Dangerous Game
• The Moustache
• Names/Nombres
• The Night Came Slowly
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• One of These Days
• The Open Window
• Popular Mechanics
• Powder
• The Ravine
• Reunion
• A Rose for Emily
• Rules of the Game
• Say Yes
• The Scholarship Jacket
• She Unnames Them
• Sleeping
• The Sniper
• Sticks
• The Stolen Party
• The Story of an Hour
• Sunday in the Park
• Thank You, Ma’am
• There Will Come Soft Rains
• To Build a Fire
• The Treasure of Lemon Brown
• 20/20
• The Use of Force
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

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The following short stories have a summary only:

• African Morning
• The Aged Mother
• Alicia
• The Balek Scales
• The Bewitched Jacket
• Beyond the Bayou
• Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes
• Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat
• Blue Winds Dancing
• The Boarded Window
• The Brown House
• By the River
• Call If You Need Me
• Chivalry
• Clean Sweep Ignatius
• Click-Clack the Rattlebag
• Clytie
• The Coffee House of Surat
• A Curtain of Green
• A Dark Brown Dog
• Daughter
• A Day Goes By
• Dog
• The Double House
• Dusk
• The Elevator (Buzzati)
• Embroidery
• The End of the World
• Escape from Spiderhead
• An Eye for an Eye
• Fat
• The First Seven Years
• Flight
• The 400-Pound CEO
• The Fourth Alarm
• Fox 8
• Game
• The Golden Apples of the Sun
• The Goophered Grapevine
• The Great Automatic Grammatizator
• The Handler
• The Happiness Machine
• I See You Never
• I Want to Know Why
• The Intruder
• The Island of the Fay
• The Jewbird
• John Redding Goes to Sea
• A Journey
• Just One More Time
• The Kiss
• The Lame Shall Enter First
• A Late Encounter with the Enemy
• The Lightning-Rod Man
• Livvie
• Love and Bread
• Luck
• Lucy Grange
• Magic
• Mars is Heaven
• A Mild Attack of Locusts
• Miss Marple Tells a Story
• Mono no Aware
• Mr. Mumsford
• Mr. Tallent’s Ghost
• My Flamboyant Grandson
• A Newspaper Story
• Neighbors
• Now I Lay Me
• The October Game
• Oil of Dog
• The Old Chief Mshlanga
• Old Mr. Marblehall
• Our Lady’s Juggler
• The Overcoat
• The Park
• The Pelican
• The Perfect Match
• A Piece of News
• A Piece of Wood
• Pink Bow Tie
• The Portable Phonograph
• Prank
• The Prophet’s Hair
• Puppy
• The Purple Hat
• Regret
• Revelation
• Ricochet
• Ripped Off
• Robot Dreams
• Rope
• Season of Disbelief
• The Second Hut
• The Semplica Girl Diaries
• The She-Wolf (Walker)
• The She-Wolf (Verga)
• Skin
• So Much Water So Close to Home
• The Spectacles
• The Story of a Letter
• A Sunrise on the Veld
• The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
• Tea
• The Teacher
• A Temple of the Holy Ghost
• Theft
• There Was Once
• The Thing in the Pond
• This Blessed House
• This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
• The Tin Star
• To the Man on the Trail
• The Tower
• An Upheaval
• Victory Lap
• A Vine on a House
• The Villager
• The Walls of Anagoor
• When It Happens
• While the Auto Waits
• The Whistle
• The Whole Town’s Sleeping
• Why Reeds Are Hollow
• Wilshire Bus
• Winky
• The Wish
• Wish You Were Here
• The Wolves of Circassia
• The Yellow Wallpaper
• The Zebra Storyteller

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