Short Stories for Literary Analysis

Reading Response

The three short stories that I annotated were Roman Fever, Sucker, and The Sniper. Sucker was probably the story I read the most easily and it was pretty interesting. The conflicts between characters were things that I can apply to my own life, maybe not as extreme as how it was in the story, but enough so that I can empathize. The Sniper was also a great story but I mostly read it because it was short. There wasn’t much deep meaning in this story and I didn’t relate much to the main character so this story overall didn’t completely catch my interest.

The story I’m considering the most for my literary analysis is Roman Fever. It was a really long short story that seemed boring at first but when I really started paying attention to it I noticed that it was 3^rd person omniscient, instead of what I originally thought. Also I noticed that the whole story was kind of building up to the two main characters’ big dispute at the end, driven by one of the characters long lasting jealousy. Roman Fever is most likely going to be the story I end up using in my literary analysis.

Reading Log

Sucker 45 mins 10/25/13

The Sniper 30 mins 10/26/13

Roman Fever 1 hour 10/27/13

Prodigy 45 mins finished 10/22/13