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A 7 page discussion and analysis of 5 short stories. The stories are Kate Chopin’s “The Story Of An Hour,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,” and D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner.” Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
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development, due to their length, and they do not have a lot of time for developing complicated plots. But, at the same time a successful short story provides enough of
these elements to pull the reader in and make them care, or make them curious. In addition, some stories, once they pull you in, provide you with a shock at
the end, or leave you with something very powerful to consider, something that may well stick with you forever. Five such short stories that provide the reader with something of
a shock, something that truly makes the reader think about life and how we perceive it, are Kate Chopins "The Story Of An Hour," Charlotte Perkins Gilmans "The Yellow Wallpaper,"
Nathaniel Hawthornes "Young Goodman Brown," Joyce Carol Oates "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been," and D.H. Lawrences "The Rocking-Horse Winner." The following paper provides a summary and analysis
of these stories, and discusses how they leave a very lasting impression due to their shock value. Summary: Short Stories Kate Chopins "The Story of an Hour" is
the story of a woman who has just discovered that her husband has been killed. She retreats upstairs to her room and sits to ponder the reality. She sits there,
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of freedom and joy that she has never
experienced before. This woman indicates that she loved her husband "sometimes" and that he was always good to her. But, at the same time "Though she is loved, and
occasionally loves, her basic human rights are being denied her in the marriage that society condoned. She was being denied any opportunity for self-expression or freedom of choice" (Story of
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