Unit 1 Expectation and Frustration 1
Text A Eleven—Sandra Cisneros 1
Text B Salvation—Langston Hughes 7
Text C Ten Indians—Ernest Hemingway 13
Text D Crickets—Robert Olen Butler 18
Unit 2 Repression and Rebell ion 24
Text A The Story of an Hour—Kate Chopin 24
Text B Sredni Vashtar—Hector Hugh Munro 32
Text C Gertrude Talks Back—Margaret Atwood 41
Text D Saboteur—Ha Jin 43
Unit 3 Life and Death 55
Text A Indian Camp—Ernest Hemingway 55
Text B A Sunrise on the Veld—Doris Lessing 63
Text C The Masque of the Red Death—Edgar Allen Poe 78
Text D Death in the Woods—Sherwood Anderson 84
Unit 4 Innocence and Experience 97
Text A The Grave—Katherine Anne Porter 98
Text B Araby—James Joyce 108
Text C One Holy Night—Sandra Cisneros 121
Text D Wild Swans—Alice Munro 128
Unit 5 Alienation and Communication 139
Text A A Tree.A Rock.A Cloud.—Carson McCullers 140
Text B Hands—Sherwood Anderson 156
Text C Gaston—William Saroyan 167
Text D Present—Ali Smith 174
Unit 6 Prejudice and Transcendence 183
Text A Cathedral—Raymond Carver 184
Text B Everything That Rises Must Converge—Flannery O'Connor 207
Text C All He Need Is Feet—Chester Himes 233
Text D Dry September—William Faulkner 236
Unit 7 Love and Suffering 249
Text A The Lady with the Dog—Anton Chekhov 249
Text B A Rose for Emily—William Faulkner 276
Text C The Nightingale and the Rose—Oscar Wilde 293
Text D Bliss—Katherine Mansfield 299
Unit 8 Fiction and Reality 313
Text A How to Tell a True War Story—Tim O'Brien 313
Text B The Garden of Forking Paths—Jorge Luis Borges 336
Text C Happy Endings—Margaret Atwood 355
Text D The Swimmer—John Cheever 358