Elements of fiction. Reading the story. Most dangerous game /Richard Connell -- Hunters in the snow / Tobias Wolff --Plot and structure. Destructors / Graham Greene -- How I met my husband / Alice Munro -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Characterization. Everyday use / A. Walker -- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- Sonny's blues / James Baldwin -- Theme. Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Misery / Anton Chekhov -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Once upon a time / Nadine Gordimer -- Point of view. Paul's case / Willa Cather -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway. Symbol, allegory, and fantasy. Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez. Humor and irony. The drunkard / Frank O'Connor -- Rape fantasies / Margaret Atwood -- The guest / Albert Camus. Evaluating fiction. The matchmaker / Elizabeth Berg -- THe magic barrel / Bernard Malamud. Three featured writers: James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates: The sisters; Araby; The boarding house / James Joyce -- Critical perspectives on Joyce -- A good man is hard to find; Good country people; Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor -- Critical perspectives on O'Connor -- Where are you going, where have you been? Life after high school; June birthing / Joyce Carol Oates -- Critical perspectives on Oates -- Writing about fiction. Why write about literature? -- For whom do you write? -- Two basic approaches -- Choosing a topic -- Proving your point -- Writing the paper -- Writing in-class essays or essay tests -- Introducing quotations -- Documentation -- Stance and style -- Grammar, punctuation, and usage, common problems -- Writing samples -- Stories for further reading. The swimmer / John Cheever -- The story of an hour / Kate Chopin -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston -- The real thing / Henry James -- The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allen Poe -- A little burst / Elizabeth Strout -- A & P / John Updike -- Glossary of terms.