Topic: Mini-Anthology

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My teacher’s instructions

Required materials: The Short Story and Its Reader, Ninth Edition

“Choose five to seven stories from our course text/anthology, The Short Story and Its Writer (Ninth Edition), that you think represent an aspect of short fiction which warrants closer attention and collection in a mini-anthology. Carefully consider the specific ways these stories work together to make up your mini-anthology, examining and sorting the threads that connect the stories to each other. Those connections are entirely up to you to choose and explore.

Then, write an essay (1500 – 2000 words) that introduces your curated collection of short stories and uses specific examples from each to explain exactly how your choices should be read and why. You may also use the provided commentaries for your selected stories to help you in introducing this mini-anthology; just be sure to quote/cite in your essay exactly how and where they contributed to your understanding of these stories.

Finally, give this mini-anthology a title and a table of contents that further binds the stories together puts those choices in an order that reflects the way you think they should be read.”

My personal notes:
1) The “aspect of fiction” I decided on was loneliness and alienation. You can do whatever you want with that.

2) I have five stories picked out already – “Hands” by Sherwood Anderson, “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol, “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri, “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield, and “Kew Gardens” by Virginia Woolf.

3) If you can find one or two that also fit the theme, you can include them; also, if you think one story would fit better than another that I mentioned already, you can replace my pick with your pick