Authors
This author changed their last name to disassociate from ancestors who participated in the Salem Witch Trials.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The main character in this story exhibits what Freud called the Oedipus complex.
The Rocking Horse Winner
The Eye
This person is stoned to death in "The Lottery."
We wrote a round-robin story after reading this story.
An American author and anthropologist who portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South. The most popular novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Zora Neale Hurston
This story makes a philosophical statement about time as an illusory construct.
The Garden of Forking Paths
In The Story of an Hour, Mrs. Mallard has this preexisting condition.
A heart problem
Two sisters in "Everyday Use"
Dee & Maggie
A white woman is electrocuted in this story.
Party Down at the Square
This author's tales capture the social and cultural milieu of her native southwestern Ontario. Received The Nobel Prize in Literature, 2013.
Alice Munro
Love continues after death, and there'll still be racist people (and dogs) in heaven.
My Dear You
What is the name of the revolution in "Saboteur"?
Cultural Revolution
Name all four characters' names in "Tiny Smiling Daddy" (daughter, father, mother, and neighbor)
Kitty, Stew, Marsha, and Norm
This author worked as a clerk in the Ministry of Public Education before becoming a writer, was known for promiscuity, suffered syphilis and mental illness in later years, and attempted suicide.
Guy de Maupassant
This author said,
"If it [colonization] failed to give them [the colonized] a song, it at least gave them a tongue, for sighing.”
“The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.”
Chinua Achebe
A story of a strange, dysfunctional romantic relationship that is short-lived.
Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story
A bead curtain and white elephants appear in this story.
Hills Like White Elephants
The name of the person, who had the same name as the city where the British artillery was in Borges' story.
Stephen Albert
The Das family, in "Interpreter of Maladies," is visiting this place
The Sun Temple
Author of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and wrote in a Southern Gothic style.
Flannery O'Connor
This story centers on the themes such as identity, isolation, escape, and love.
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Name of Goodman Brown's Wife
Faith
Full name of Parker, in "Parker's Back"
Obadiah Elihue Parker
This story uses a second-person point of view.