• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Homepage
    • About
      • Margaret Kell Virany
      • Privacy Policy
      • Cookie Policy
      • Terms of Use
      • Contact Us
  • Awards
    • Book Award
  • Literature
    • Essays
    • Interviews
    • Poetry
    • Short Stories
  • Analysis
    • Short Story Analysis
    • Reviews
  • Web Stories
    • LGBT
    • Uncategorized
  • Products
    • Award Winner
    • Children
    • Essays
    • Fiction
    • Non-Fiction
    • Rare Classics
    • Short Stories
    • Fiza Pathan
  • Braille
insaneowl

insaneowl

A topnotch Wordpress.com site

Advertisement

Short Story Analysis

‘A Willing Slave’ by R.K. Narayan: Short Story Analysis

June 13, 2022 By fizapathan Leave a Comment

‘A Willing Slave’ is a short story about an elderly simpleton woman called Thayi but known as Ayah, who is willing to quit her almost full-time job to care for her husband. The short story tells in a simplistic and unpretentious way about how Ayah has always been an enslaved person in her life in many ways. She likes to be so and does not seem to know better. Themes such as … [Read more...] about ‘A Willing Slave’ by R.K. Narayan: Short Story Analysis

‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde: Short Story Analysis

March 23, 2022 By fizapathan Leave a Comment

‘The Selfish Giant’ is a parabolic fable set in a fantasy background penned and published in May 1888 by Oscar Wilde, an Irish poet and writer of great repute. The Christian element in the short story is evident. The story is one of the many literary styles that the writer, poet, and public personality Oscar Wilde experimented with throughout his literary career, especially … [Read more...] about ‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde: Short Story Analysis

‘Elias’ by Leo Tolstoy: Short Story Analysis

March 21, 2022 By fizapathan Leave a Comment

‘Elias’ is a realistic Christian parabolic short story penned by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy in 1885. Leo Tolstoy wrote this short story after his moral crisis and spiritual awakening post-1870. ‘Elias’, also sometimes titled ‘Ilyas’, is the story of a Muslim Bashkir of Russia in the Ural Mountains. Elias undergoes prosperity and then failure in his life through the changing … [Read more...] about ‘Elias’ by Leo Tolstoy: Short Story Analysis

‘The Cherry Tree’ by Ruskin Bond: Short Story Analysis

March 14, 2022 By fizapathan Leave a Comment

‘The Cherry Tree’ was written in 1980 by Anglo-Indian writer Ruskin Bond also known as the writer from the Hills of India. Ruskin Bond penned this realistic short story of the hills of Mussoorie in India. Ruskin Bond wrote this short story while still living at the Maplewood Lodge in Mussoorie. This short story is styled like a bedtime story and is based on the scenic natural … [Read more...] about ‘The Cherry Tree’ by Ruskin Bond: Short Story Analysis

‘He’ by Katherine Anne Porter: Short Story Analysis

March 11, 2022 By fizapathan Leave a Comment

‘He’ is a post-Southern realistic contemporary short story penned by American writer Katherine Anne Porter. This short story is set in Texas in Porter’s native town, where an unnamed special needs child is often abused, pitied, and ultimately abandoned in a poor institutional home by his family. Katherine Anne Porter differs from the post-Faulkner school of Southern novelists … [Read more...] about ‘He’ by Katherine Anne Porter: Short Story Analysis

« Previous Page
Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

E-mail Newsletter

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

More to See

‘Grandmother’s Tale’ by R.K. Narayan: Summary

February 14, 2023 By fizapathan

‘The Boss Came to Dinner’ by Bhisham Sahni: Short Story Analysis

February 9, 2023 By fizapathan

https://www.insaneowl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Scenes-of-a-Reclusive-Writer-Reader-of-Mumbai.mp4

OUR RARE CLASSICS SERIES

Footer

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Search

Copyright © 2023 Fiza Pathan · All rights reserved · Log in

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Cookie settingsACCEPT

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT