According to Edgar Alan Poe, a short story should be like a window into someone else’s life, in other words it doesn’t really matter what happened before and it doesn’t matter what’s going to happen after. The authors of the short stories I have read in class this year, using only that window, have made me feel sorry for the characters and angry towards the resentment the rest of the community shows them because they are different from others. Reading White & witchetty, the Dolls House and Josie has made me question my own values and beliefs.

The Authors have made me reflect on my own beliefs and my attitudes towards those people who are in some way different from others. Situations in these short stories are startlingly realistic; the portrayal of these characters’ feelings gives the readers a glance at their inner hurt. Ostracized and excluded, these characters’ suffering is an unfortunate and unnecessary bi-product of our society’s ideology.

In “White and......

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Title: Short Story Essay
Approximate Word Count: 686
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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