The Stories

Below is a complete list of the stories we have read this quarter that may be on the final. Following each story is a quick list of names and terms you should know to be ready for the final.

H = Handout, R = Reader, S = Short Shorts, Y = You’ve Got to Read This, B = Best of 1998

“Believing in People” by Kirk Nesset (H) - Danielle. Chuck. Lisa. Lobsters. Super market. Trust.
“The Snow Collectors” by Tatyana Tolstaya (H) - St. Petersberg. Winter snow. Vuchetich. White and black. Writing. Symbolic meaning.
“Hair Jewellery” by Margaret Atwood (H) - Narrator. Male lead. Clothing. Memory. Romance and Realism. Hair Jewellery. Salem. New York. Success.Literature. Sex. Maturation.
“Araby” by James Joyce (R) - Narrator. Mangan’s sister. Bracelet. Bazaar. Religion. Romance and Realism. Maturation.
“Eveline” by James Joyce (S69) - Eveline. Father. Mother. Frank. Argentina. Memory.
“The Dead” by James Joyce (Y283) - Lily. Gabriel. Gretta. Aunt Julia. Aunt Kate. Miss. Ivors. Mary Jane. Freddy Malins. Mr. Browne. Michael Fury. Galoshes. Three Graces. Snow. Speech. West Briton. Monks. Distant Music. Lass of Aughrim. Epiphany.
“After the Theatre” by Anton Chekhov (S29) -Nadya. Two lovers. Eugene Onegin. Romance and Realism. Maturity.
“Gooseberries” by Anton Chekhov (Y178) - Ivan Ivanovich. Burkin. Alehin. Pelagea. Washing. Swimming. Stories. Brother. Gooseberries. Do good.
“Cathedral” by Raymond Carver (Y138) - Narrator. Wife. Robert. Blind Man. Television. Cathedrals.
“The Three Hermits” by Leo Tolstoy (S3) - Hermits. Bishop. Prayer.
“Alyosha the Pot” (S11) - Alyosha. Father. Merchant. Wife. Ustinja. Story. Boots. Smile.
“The Wolf” by Giovanni Verga (S33) - The Wolf. Nanni. Maricchia. Climax.
“The Third Bank of the River” by Joao Guimaraes Rosa (S49) -Narrator. Father. Mother. Boat. Decision. Maturation. River.
“The Bathhouse” by Mikhail Zoschenko (S129) - Narrator. Washing. Tickets. Clothes. Metaphor.
Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros
“My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn” - Narrator. Lucy. Voice. Class. Childhood.
“Eleven” - Point of view. Rachel. Sweater. Power. Age.
“Salvador Late or Early” - Salvador. Siblings. Class. Responsibility.
“Mexican Movies” - Movies. Narrator. Family. Sex. Safety. Theatre.
“Barbie-Q” - Point of View. Narrator. Friend. Dolls. Sock dress. Flea Market. Making do.
“Mericans” - Nationality and Ethnicity. Michelle/Micaela. Keeks/Enrique. Junior/Alfredito. The awful grandmother. Tourists. Religion. Age. Gender. Language.
“Tepeyac” - Narrator. Abuelito. Memory. Stairs. Nationality. Past and present.
“One Holy Night” - Narrator. Ixchel. Chaq. Boy Baby. Chato. Fat Face. Cucumbers. Dar a luz. Age. Innocence and Experience. Alegre. Borders. The Caves of the Hidden Girl. Mayan.
“My Tocaya” - Voice. Patricia. Trish. Accent. Max Lucas Luna Luna. Death.
“Woman Hollering Creek” - Cleofilas. Dolores. Soledad. Graciela. Felice. Father. Juan Pedro/ito. El Otro Lado. La Gritona. La Llorona. Telenovelas. Romance and Realism. Tarzan.
“The Marlboro Man” -Style. Voice. Icons. Marlboro Man/Men.
“La Fabulosa: A Texas Operetta” - Voice. Carmen. Soldier. Senator. Romance. Two fates.
“Remember the Alamo” - Rudy. Tristan. “Maricon”. The Travisty. Dancing.
“Never Marry A Mexican” - Clemencia. Drew. Megan. Son. Cortez and Malinche. Teachers. Art. Social Class. Gummy Bears. Shifting title.
“Bread” -Relationships. Memory. Distance. Spanish. Italian. Bread.
“Eyes of Zapata” -Ines. Emiliano. Kids. Women. Magic. War. Eyes. Time. Mujeriego/Sexism.
“Anguiano Religious ...” - Store owner. Customers. Stock.
“Little Miracles, Kept Promises” - Collection of Prayers. Overall effect.
“Los Boxers” - Widower. Family. Laundry. Wife.
“The Was A Man, There Was A Woman” - Poetic style. Give and take.
“Tin Tan Tan” - Poetry. Lupita. Rogelio Velasco. Relation to other stories. Irony.
“Bien Pretty” - Lupe. Flavio. Popocatepetl. Ixtaccihuatl. San Antonio/Francisco. Exterminator. Painting. Identity. Language. Dog.
“Boys and Girls” by Sandra Cisneros (R)-Boundaries between children. Siblings. Friends.
“My Name” by Sandra Cisneros (R) - Esperanza. Language changes. Naming.
“The Family of Little Feet” by Sandra Cisneros (R) - Narrator, Lucy, Rachel. Shoes. Cinderella. Innocence and Experience. Childhood. Sexuality.
“Geraldo, No Last Name”by Sandra Cisneros (R) - Marin. Geraldo. Dancing. Home.
“Bums in the Attic” by Sandra Cisneros (R) - Social class. Hills v. Earth. Bums.
“Labor Day Dinner” by Alice Munro (Y381) - George. Roberta. Valerie. Eva. Angela. Ruth. David. Kimberly. Diana the cat. The Farmhouse. Point of view. Climax.
“Petrified Man” by Eudora Welty (R) - Leota. Mrs. Fletcher. Mrs. Pike. Billy Boy. Fred. Marriage. Pregnancy. Freak Show. Pygmies. Mr. Petrie. Medusa. Control. Power. Spanking.
“No Place for You, My Love” by Eudora Welty (Y588) - Male and Female leads. Title. “South of South.” Drive. River. Animals. Baba’s place. Dancing. Responsibility. Temptation.
“The Catbird Seat” by James Thurber (R) - Mr. Martin. Ulgine Barrows. The boss. Language. Plot. Predictability.
“In the Penal Colony” by Franz Kafka (Y322) - The Officer. The Soldier. The Explorer. The Condemned Man. Commandants. Guilt. Justice. The Apparatus. The Harrow. Symbolism.
“First Sorrow” by Franz Kafka (S95) - Trapeze Artist. Manager. 2 trapezes. Metaphor?
“A Good Man Is Hard To Find” By Flannery O’Connor (Y443) - Grandmother. Bailey boy. Grandchildren. Cat. Red Sammy. The Misfit. Good old days. Good blood.
“The Dead Man” by Jorge Luis Borges (S152) - Benjamin Otalora. Azevedo Bandiera. Woman. Horse. Power and Violence.Title.
“The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges (Y63) - Borges. Beatriz. Daneri. The past. Language and the Aleph. Writing. The Earth.
“Swaddling Clothes” by Yukio Mishima (S137) - Toshiko. Husband. Nurse. 2 babies. The “incident”. Newspapers. Imperial Palace. Present and future. East and West.
“Homage for Isaac Babel” by Doris Lessing (S148) - Narrator. Catherine. Philip. Isaac Babel. Movie. “Conscious simplicity”. Maturation. Innocence and experience.
“The Death of Dolgushov” by Isaac Babel (S125) - Insiders and outsiders. Battle. Narrator. Grishchuk. Women. Dolgushov. Afonka. Eat.
“Guy de Maupassant” by Isaac Babel (Y22) - Narrator. Raisa. Literature. Translation. Romance and realism. Guy de Maupassant.
“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates (R) - Connie. Mother. June. Arnold Friend. Ellie. Family relations. Innocence and experience. Sex.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro” - Leopard. Harry. She. Gangrene. Writing and not writing. Talent. Money. Love. Hyena. Rescue plane. Kilimanjaro.
“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” - Old Man. Waiter. Younger Waiter. Cafe. Insomnia. Nada.
“A Day’s Wait” - Schatz. Father. Illness. Childhood and Adulthood. Hunting. Waiting.
“The Gambler, The Nun, and the Radio” - Sister Cecilia. Mr. Frazer. Cayetano. Russian. Mexicans. Luck. Sainthood. Ethnicity. Opium of the people.
“Fathers and Sons” - Nick Adams. Father. Son. Trudy. Billy. Writing and not writing. Hunting. Innocence and experience. Sex. Suicide. Memory. Distance.
“In Another Country” - War. Injury. Hospital. Machines. Being American. Nationality. Hope. Sense of time. Nose. Major’s wife.
“The Killers” - Nick Adams. George. Sam. Max. Al. Ole Andreson. Movies. Reactions.
“A Way You’ll Never Be” - Nick Adams. Paravicini. The dead. War. Being American. Uniform. Memory. Locusts. Instability. What is “it”? Explain Title.
“The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” - Francis. Robert Wilson. Margot. Lion. Buffaloes. Shooting from cars. Sex. Cowardice. Manhood. American-ness. Point of view.
“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway (H) - The man. The girl. Jig. The operation. The hills. Things unspoken. Abortion. Argument.
“The Rabbit” by Djuna Barnes (R) - The tailor. Addie. America. manhood. Heroes. Rabbit.
“A Night Among the Horses”by Djuna Barnes (R) - John the Ostler. Freda. Civilization and nature. Class and Gender Conflict. Mechanism. Manning and unmanning. Costume party.
“The Doctors” by Djuna Barnes (R) - Katrina and Otto Silverstaff. Veterinarian. Gynecologist. Judgment. Bookseller. Bible. Religion. Sex and Death.
“A Sick Collier” by D. H. Lawrence (S75) - Lucy. Willy. Happiness. Poverty. Injury.
“Wants” by Grace Paley (Y469) - Woman. Husband. Ex-husband. Library. Desires. Time.
“An Episode of War” by Stephen Crane (S39) - Civil War. Lieutenant. Mathematics. Injury. Vision of war.
“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin (Y32) - Narrator. Sonny. Isabel. Grace. Mother. Father. Uncle. Creole. Teaching. Drugs. Jazz. Hope. Light and Dark.
“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien (Y424) - Lieutenant Cross. Martha. Ted Lavender. Carrying. Romance and Realism. Innocence and Experience. War. Style.
“The Blue Bouquet” by Octavio Paz (S163) - Narrator. Innkeeper. Attacker. Sensual input. Place in the universe. Insects. Blue Eyes.
“The Daughters of the Late Colonel” by Katherine Mansfield (Y363) - Father. Kate. Constantia. Josephine. Nurse Andrews. Benny. Cyril. Chocolate cake. Meringues. Sun and moon. Fantasy and Reality. Innocence and Experience. Maturity. Temporal flow of story.
“Life of Ma Parker” by Katherine Mansfield (R) - Ma Parker. Literary gentleman. Lennie. Writing. Social class. Public and private spaces. Life. History.
“Cat and Mouse” by Witi Ihimaera (R) - George Campbell. Mavis. Scottish. Cockney. Maori. Britishness/Foreignness. Class and race boundaries. Cat and mouse. Relate to “Ma.”
“My Father on the Verge of Disgrace” by John Updike (B158) - Narrator. Father. Depression and WWII. Economics. Masculinity. Innocence and Experience. Maturation.
“Flower Children” by Maxine Swann (B97) - Narrative voice. Children. Parents. Rules. Counterculture. Openness. Recklessness. Sexuality. Responsibility. Innocence and Experience.
“The Half-Skinned Steer” by Annie Proulx (B110) - Mero. Rollo. The Old man. Girlfriend. Tin Head. Sexuality. Avoidance. Emus. The Steer. Unfinished business.
“Tea at the House” by Meg Wolitzer (B218) - Narrator. Girl. Father. Mother. Warren Keyes. Psychiatry. Social class. Prejudice. Sexuality. Knowledge. Hurt. Harvard. War. Unsaid.
“Appetites” by Kathryn Chetkovich (B1) - Amanda. Faith. Carla. Billy. Clark. Beauty. Music. Violence. Mice. Harm. Safety.
“Body Language” by Diane Schoemperlen (B26) - Married couple. Illustrations. Conditional nature of story. Point of view. Body and mind.
“Elvis Has Left the Building” by Carol Anshaw (B70) - Jean. Alice. Tom. Roxanne. Sylvie Ataurd. Big Tiny. Counterculture. Sexuality. Love and deferment.
“People Like That Are the Only People Here” by Lorrie Moore (B188) - Mother. Baby. Husband. Frank. Joey. Cancer. Notes. Writing. Time. Language. Point of view.
“Every Night for a Thousand Years” by Chris Adrian (B83) - Civil War. Walt Whitman. Hank Smith. Doctors. Hospital. Leg. Bird. Passage of time. Letter. Friendship. Love.
“Glory Goes and Gets Some” by Emily Carter (B107) - Glory. Stefan. HIV. Religion. Perversion. Activism. Connection. Sex. Winter and spring.
“Mr. Sweetly Indecent” by Bliss Broyard (B144) - Narrator. Father (Zachary). Mother. Mr. Sweetly Indecent. Sexuality. Maturation. Childhood and adulthood. Past and Present.
“Welding with Children” by Tim Gautreaux (B254) - Grandfather (Bruton). Daughters. Grandchildren. “Bastardmobile.” Welding. “Tree of Knowledge.” Change. Title.
“The Soft Touch of Grass” by Luigi Pirandello (S83) - Pardi. Wife. Son. Daughter-in-law. Naming. Adulthood and second childhood. Denial. Reaction.
“Paper Pills” by Sherwood Anderson (S106) - Dr. Reefy. Wife. Suitors. John Spaniard (tree nursery). Thoughts. Twisted apples. Window. Truths. Paper balls.
“Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams (S132) - Doctor. Girl. Mother. Father. Diphtheria. Resistance. Force. Control.
“The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue” by Poe Ballantine (B12) - Narrator. Sambeauxs. Ashmonts. Roland. Homer. Bizzy. Social class. Sexuality. Innocence and Experience. Luck. Epigraph.
“Goodbye, My Brother” by John Cheever (Y157) - Narrator. Mother. Lawrence/Tifty. Chaddy. Diana. Helen. Odette. Anna Otrovick. Swimming. Backgammon. The dance. House. Old and new. Past and present. Puritanism.

Good Luck!!!