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Short Stories

Mystery in the Short Story

The term short story can be a bit deceiving. The idea of a short story seems that it may be lacking something, that some of the essential elements of plot and other aspects of literature may not be found in these stories as they would in novels. Eudora Welty in her essay “The Reading and Writing of Short Stories” states that “Every good story has a mystery-not the puzzle kind, but the mystery of allurement”(164). This mystery can be found in her own short story, “Why I live at the P.O.” and Anton Chekhov’s story “The Lady with the Pet Dog.” Although these stories develop their mystery and allurement in different ways, both use the elements of plot such as point of view and setting as well as narration to develop their stories in a way that keeps building mystery and attraction to the work throughout the whole story.
Welty continues in her article stating, “As we understand the story better, it is likely that the mystery does not......


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