Short Fiction:Selected Stories

Rohan Rajeev

The Metamorphosis-F. Kafka

Gregor Samsa-traveling salesman and insect Sister is Grete-she plays violin; cares for Gregor

after his change Nabakov wrote essay about “transformation” Now his family doesn’t want him Chief Clerk-his boss Dies from an apple in the back 3 tenants and boarders live in the house Other Kafka Stories: A Country Doctor, The

Trail, Castle

The protagonist of this work confides to another character that he had hoped to send her to the Conservatory. Oversleeping his alarm by two and a half hours, the protagonist of this work tries to roll out of bed to go to work, but the Manager quickly runs down the stairs after entering his room. While Grete initially tries to help him by providing milk, her father pummels the protagonist with apples, one of which lodges itself in his back and eventually causes his death. Gregor Samsa discovers that he has undergone the title transformation into a giant insect at the beginning of, FTP, which short story by Franz Kafka?

Araby- J.Joyce

Narrator- an unnamed boy North Dublin-setting Mangan’s sister- object of his affection Araby- a Dublin bazaar “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” Lives on North Richmond Street “Fall of coins” – Sound he hears while at Araby “The Arabs Farewell to His Steed” IN DUBLINERS

The protagonist of this short story discovers The Abbot, by Sir Walter Scott after the former tenant of his apartment dies. After making a promise, the title character is frustrated in his attempts to visit the title location, being forced to recite The Arab's Farewell to his Steed to his aunt in order to get the money. Once he gets there, however, he realizes his foolishness, and realizes the emptiness of his love for Mangan's sister. FTP, identify this short story concerning a visit to the title bazaar, a story in Dubliners by James Joyce.

The Fall of the House of Usher-E.A.Poe

Burton’s Gentleman's Magazine/Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Roderick and Madeline Usher; twins; he buries her alive

“The Haunted Place” and “The Mad Trist” are works in the story

Unnamed narrator-boyhood friend of RU House collapses at the end, twins die

The Murders in the Rue Morgue-E.A. Poe

Claimed as the first detective story; a tale of “ratiocination”

C. Auguste Dupin- amateur sleuth in Paris 2 women are killed- Madame L’Espanye

and her daughter Adolphe Le Bon- wrongly imprisoned Monsieur G.- prefect of police Murder is an orangutan owned by a sailor

About halfway into this work, the narrator is instructed to recall the lead actor's height in a contemporary production of Crebillon's Xerxes by a gentleman he once met in a library at the RueMontmartre. It compares the skills needed to succeed at chess with those required by whist and, at one point, reproduces a full excerpt from the Gazette des Tribunaux. It begins with a quote fromThomas Browne asserting that even the most puzzling questions are not beyond all conjecture and ends with a visit to the Prefect to secure the release of Adolphe Le Bon, who had been apprehended near the scene at Quartier St. Roch. It is through a process its author dubs "ratiocination" that the protagonist determines who was responsible for the mangled corpses of a mother and daughter named L'Espanaye. While the story features a bevy of witnesses who attest to the culprit's nationality, the protagonist deduces that the true killer at the house on the titular street was a recently captured Orangutan. For 10 points, identify this 1841 short story that featured the debut of the detective C. Auguste Dupin, a work by Edgar Allan Poe.

Bartleby the Scrivener-H. Melville

Subtitled “ A Story of Wall Street” Found in The Piazza tales Narrator- master of chancery (property cases for rich

men); employs Gingernut, Turkey, and Nippers Narrator reads J. Edwards and decides that B. was

predestined to be in his life B.- “I would prefer not to” B. worked for the Dead Letter

office in DC B. is placed in the The Tombs where he dies of

starvation “Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity!”

His behavior reminds the narrator of how the provocation of Samuel Adams drove John Colt to commit murder, especially when he is caught one Sunday morning lodging in the narrator's office, where he has set up his "hermitage." The narrator tries unsuccessfully to have Turkey, Nippers, and Ginger Nut confront him, and after moving to a new office, the narrator learns that this character has been arrested for vagrancy and sent to the Tombs. Quiet except for his repeated, passive refusal to perform certain tasks, this is, FTP, what Herman Melville-created clerk whose catchphrase is "I would prefer not to?"

Death in Venice-T. Mann

Gustav van Ashenbach-protagonist;author Writes “The Wretched Man”-poem about Frederick the

Great Stays at the Grand Hotel des Bains on the Lido Island Dies of cholera at the end after eating overripe

strawberries; collapses after watching Tadzio and Jasihu fight

Boy who inspired Tadzio was Baron Wladyslaw Moes Benjamin Britten opera (his last) Scent of disinfectant in the air

The protagonist of this story tries to avoid an old man from Pola whose dentures fall out of place as he shouts "Our very best to your sweetheart!" That old man resembles other characters, including a street entertainer and a man seen in the doorway of a mortuary chapel in Munich. The protagonist, the author of "The Wretched Man" and a prose epic about Frederick the Great, loses his luggage after arriving at the Hotel des Bains on Lido. The sweetish smell of disinfectant haunts him, and he becomes ill by eating some overripe strawberries. Finally, he is summoned to his fate by Tadzio, the Polish boy with whom he has fallen in love. FTP, name this Thomas Mann short story centering on Gustav von Aschenbach and his demise in an Italian city.

The Overcoat-N. GogLOL

Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin- Protagonist. Named after his daddy

He is a poor government clerk and copyist Told to replace his overcoat-saves money After party he is mugged, overcoat is stolen, and

a VIP won’t help him Becomes a ghost and steals people’s overcoats Dostoevsky said “We all come out of Gogol’s

overcoat” Petrovich is his tailor. Mugged after midnight

Because the mother of the protagonist of this work believes some names are too poor and others unheard of, her son is thus named after his father, whereupon the protagonist cries and makes a grimace. Despite being mocked by his co-workers, the protagonist is later invited to tea with an official, after which he is accosted in a square after midnight. Later on, the protagonist is advised to go to a prominent personage, whose disgust with the protagonist's low rank prevents him from finding out that the title item, made by Petrovich, has been stolen. Akaky Akakievitch haunts St. Petersburg to recover the titular lost garment at the end of, FTP, which short story by Nikolai Gogol?

A Good Man is Hard to Find- F. O’Connor

Grandmother; Pitty Sing= Cat Bailey-her son; June Star & John Wesley-his kids Misfit- Escaped convict & murderer; Hiram and

Bobby Lee- his men Edgar Atkins Teagarden- suitor to Grandmother;

E.A.T in a watermelon The Tower- barbeque restaurant where family

stops. Owned by Red Sammy Butts; he says “ A Good

Man is Hard To Find.”

One of the characters in this work notes that a car's mileage is at 55890, which she never gets around to telling anyone. That character tells a story about a man who once gave her a watermelon with his initials carved into it, but since those intials were "E. A. T" a child ate the melon before she could get it. Some of the characters get lunch at The Tower, where they buy barbecue sandwiches from Red Sammy Butts. Another character remarks that he has been in a tornado, has seen a man burned alive, and has himself been buried alive, and criticizes Jesus for raising the dead. That character has helpers named Hiram and Bobby Lee, to whom he remarks that "it's no real pleasure in life." John Wesley and Bailey are the first to die in this story, and are rapidly followed by June Star, June's mother, and the grandmother. FTP, name this story in which the Misfit proves the titular point, a work by Flannery O'Connor.