Introduction Reading a Story 1
Chapter One Plot 5
A ＆ P by John Updike 9
The Furnished Room by O.Henry 21
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner 34
Chapter Two Point of View 51
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 63
Araby by James Joyce 72
Chapter Three Character 85
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter 94
Tickets,Please by D.H.Lawrence 111
Chapter Four Setting 130
The Storm by Kate Chopin 137
The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy 145
Chapter Five Style 174
A Clean,Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway 185
Barn Burning by William Faulkner 193
Chapter Six Theme 219
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne 223
The Killers by Ernest Hemingway 243
Chapter Seven Symbol 267
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson 273
Chapter Eight Reading Long Stories and Novels 292
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka,Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir 315
Chapter Nine New Fiction 370
The Balloon by Donald Barthelme 374
Chapter Ten Writing about a Story 384
Appendix Ⅰ 415
Why Do We Read Fiction？ by Robert Penn Warren 415
Appendix Ⅱ 429
How I Write by Eudora Welty 429
Appendix Ⅲ 441
Samples of MLA Style“Works Cited”in Research Papers 441
Bibliography 446