Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian — Review

The short story “Cat Person" by Kristen Roupenian was published in December 2017 in The New Yorker. It's a narration about a brief relationship between a twenty-year-old girl and an older man.

As their relationship develops, the girl’s imagination moves rapidly between imagining the guy as the desired person who is impressed by her young beauty to imagining him as a dangerous and murderous brute.

The story is analyzed by many famous mass media such as The BBC, The Washington Post and The Atlantic. It also attracts attention from a large internet audience. This shows that the way this kind of love story is written is related to real feelings which people often experience.



Here is the link to the story:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway — Review

The short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway doesn’t have a detailed description of the lives of the characters. There are only a few dialogues in the story, but the author leaves readers a place for imagination about the lives of the characters and their emotional state.

If the old man and the older waiter are definitely lonely, then the complete contrast to them is the young waiter hurrying home to his wife. The old man is not a drunkard, he is trying to drown his loneliness in alcohol.

Nevertheless, there is something that unites them: a place where it is clean and light. One possible interpretation of the moral of this story is: if the light in the soul is extinguished, then the person is involuntarily drawn to the place where it is light.

This is the link to the text of the story:
https://literaryfictions.com/fiction-1/a-clean-well-lighted-place/

Forewarned by Saki — Review

The short story Forewarned '' was written by British writer Saki, who is also well known as H. H. Munro, is about prejudice and how powerful these feelings can be.

The story starts with a description of the arrival of the main character, Alethia, for a visit with her cousin. During her trip, a new circumstance appears, which becomes the source of fear for the main heroine. The narration describes the emotions and feelings of Alethia, and through them, readers can see typical, maybe a little exaggerated features of British society.

 

 

This is a link to the text of the story:

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Fore.shtml

After The Race by James Joyce — Review

The short story “After The Race” written by the most famous Irish writer James Joyce gives readers a lot of options for interpretation. We have here the description of one day, just a few episodes of life in Irish society.

James Joyce put in the first place not a plot but something which readers may see behind the text. The site genious.com gives people a tool for giving different interpretations (see link in the last line).

For example, see how one contributor of the story describes his/her interpretation of the meaning of this work:

“The Irish cheering of the French is misplaced and plain wrong; they didn’t even win ! This demonstrates the perversion in the action of the Irish people … supporting the enemies of the England”



Here is the text of the story with interpretation of some parts of the. narration:

https://genius.com/3462563