Status Updates From The Art of the Short Story

Henry James - The Real Thing - 3.5⭐️
Ha Jin - Saboteur - 4⭐️
James Joyce - Araby 5⭐️ & The Dead 🤯6/5 ⭐️
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis 5⭐️
DH Lawrence - Odour of Chrysanthemums -4.5/5
The Rocking Horse Winner - 3.5/5

Kafka and Joyce back to back. What a one-two punch! Araby twisted my guts.
The Dead absolutely knocked me off my feet. Incredible.

Hemingway - A Clean, Well-Lighted Place 4/5
ZoraHurston -Sweat 3.5/5
Shirley Jackson - the Lottery 6/5
The Lottery remains my favourite short story of all time. It is incredible. The author’s perspective includes afterward is also spectacular. Speaking of response to the story: judging from these letters, people who read stories are gullible, rude, frequently illiterate, and horribly afraid of being laughed at”

Gordimer - A Company of Laughing Faces
4/5 ⭐️

Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown - 4/5 ⭐️
Thé Birthmark - 2/5 ⭐️

Gogol - The Overcoat

4/5

Summarized as - living in Russia has always sucked.
OR
Human fulfillment through material desire?

I think every Canadian school kid can identify with how a new winter coat changed your outlook on life.

Ellison and Faulkner!
Powerful southern stories.

Stephen Crane - Thé Open Boat 4.5 ⭐️.
Incredible. Haunting. I loved it.

So many pages left...brrrr

After reading Kafka's "the Metamorphosis": wait, no, I need a minute 😭