The story “After The Dance” by Leo Tolstoy curries the idea that the environment affects the formation of a person.
The story begins romantically. So inspirationally, poetically, Tolstoy describes feelings of a young man for the beautiful girl. And suddenly the main character changes his attitude towards his love dramatically. The author describes a completely different image, emotions and feelings.
Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://shortstoryproject.com/stories/after-the-dance/
In the story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker readers will learn what a legacy is for different people.
Everyone has their own way of learning about their heritage and understanding what it means to them. They are allowed to have their own thoughts about their heritage and draw their own conclusions.
Using an old blanket as an object, the author describes different ideas about the heritage of people.
This is a link to the text of the story:
https://nwsaenglishii.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/everyday-use.pdf
The already middle-aged Miss Reid, annually for the winter, went on a cruise on one of the cargo-passenger ships, which took passengers on board without presenting them with special amenities.
Being very sociable, she tormented the male crew of the ship with her banal conversations, which everyone found boring. The ship's doctor suggested that she, like an old maid, obviously simply did not have enough attention, and then the captain ordered the young radio operator (with great resistance on his part) to show interest in the lady ... The result was not quite the one they expected.
Here is the link to the text of the story:
https://yablokova.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/maugham_somerset_sixtyfive_short_stories.pdf
