Part One Elements of Fiction 1
1．Characters 5
2．Setting 20
3．Point of View 23
4．Theme 26
5．The Quality Story 32
Part Two A Collection of Stories 55
The Egg&Sherwood Anderson 56
Paul's Case&Willa Cather 65
The Story of an Hour&Kate Chopin 81
The Chaser&John Collier 84
A Rose for Emily&William Faulkner 87
Babylon Revisited&F.Scott Fitzgerald 95
A Jury of Her Peers&Susan Glaspell 112
The Lottery&Shirley Jackson 130
The Real Thing&Henry James 138
Araby&James Joyce 158
GIRL&Jamaica Kincaid 163
Haircut&Ring Lardner 165
The Horse Dealer's Daughter&D.H.Lawrence 174
Home&William Somerset Maugham 188
Everything That Rises Must Converge&Flannery O'Conner 192
My Oedipus Complex&Frank O'Connor 205
I Stand Here Ironing&Tillie Olsen 215
The Open Window&Saki（H.H.Munro） 222
The People Next Door&Pauline C.Smith 225
A ＆ P&John Updike 230
Everyday Use&Alice Walker 236
A Worn Path&Eudora Welty 244
The Use of Force&William Carlos Williams 251