By: Sarah Orne Jewett

Main Characters: Sylvia, Mrs. Tillie, and the Hunter

Speaker: Narrator

Plot: Slyvia, a young girl moves to the forest, becomes one with nature. She notices a beautiful white heron, hunter temps her to tell him where the white heron is. She becomes less in touch with nature. Has an epiphany, and does not tell the hunter.

Themes: Nature equals Freedom, growing up, and learning what is more important to you. Also about denying temptation.

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Main Characters: Young Goodman Browne and Satan

Speaker: Narrator

Young Goodman Browne goes traveling through the woods and meets up with the devil. The devil attempts to show Young Goodman Browne that everything in his life is hyprocritical and immoral. Young Goodman Browne, torn, runs through the forest in search of his love "Faith," runs into a witch meeting. Through the experiences of the night Young Goodman Browne is left disgusted with hipocrisy, shrinking from faith and closer to gloom and death.

Themes: Faith, and Young Goodman Browne's loss of faith. Temptation from the Devil. and Hypocrisy in man.

By: Abrose Briece

Main Characters: Peyton Faqurah, wife, solidiers

Speakers: Narrator

Plot: Man is about to be hanged off of Owl Creek Bridge. Flashback to him being caught for treason. The dreams of swimming away in his last dieing moment, though he is actually dead.

Themes: What one pictures in their last dieing moments.

By: Kate Chopin

Main Characters: Mrs. Sommers

Speaker: Narrator

Plot: Mrs. Sommers realizes she has more money then expected and decides rather to contain it and use if for family purchases, to rather, go out and buy with it what she pleases and enjoy the high life for once.

Themes: Self Indulgence, and Self Sacrifice

By: Ernest Hemmingway

Main Characters: Nick, George and Max, and Al

Speaker: Narrator

Plot: Ole Anderson, a famous boxer, is being hunted down by two men George and Max. The men enter Henry's restraunt to kill Ole Anderson, but he is not their. Nick tries to go save Ole Anderson, yet he is no their.

Themes: The obsilism of the hero, the enevitability of death

By: Edgar Allen Poe

Main Characters: Narrator (young man), Older Man with glass eye

Speaker: Narrator

Plot: Man goes mad and kills an older man he lives with who has a glass eye that he believe is stalking him. Full of grief he begins to hear the mans heart from underneath the floorboards. Eventually he confesses to the police.

Themes: Grief, insanity, "killing time"

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Main Characters: Woman, John (Her husband)

Speaker: Woman (first person narration)

Plot: The woman is going through post-mordom depression after having her child. Her husband, keeps her locked up in her room, as he says that she needs rest. She eventually is left with her own imagination and creates a woman creeping around inside the wallpaper. She eventually becomes that woman through her own cooped up society. But eventually this is how she break free.

Themes: Captivity, escaping, The uncanny, and Gothic

By: Sherwood Anderson

Main Character: Narrator, Narrators father, Joe Kane

Speaker: Narrator (son)

Plot: This story is about the American dream. A man looses it all one night when he is unable to push an egg through a bottle. This ruins his family.

Themes: Satire, the Grotesque, and the American dream

By: Bret Harte

Main Characters: Baby (Thomas), Kentuck, Main character, and Cherokee Sal

Speaker: Main character, first person

Plot: Men worship baby named Thomas, as he is bringing good luck to the people of the town. The story eludes to christinaty, luck fails when a flood comes in and the baby dies as well as a fellow minor named Kentuck.

Themes: Luck, Realism, Christianity

By: Jack London

Main characters: Man and Dog

Speaker: Man (first-person), Dog (first person) when man dies.

Plot: Man breaks off from the yukon trail. He sees himself as a superior to his environment, trust his "judgment" over his "instinct." He goes through many fires and accidents trying to survive. Snow falls from tree onto fire "death sentence" tries to kill dog. Realizes he may die he desperately flees. Accepts death, and dies. Dog heads towards camp.

Themes: Instinct vs. Judgment, battle of nature

By: Theodore Dreisier

Main Characters: Pheobe, Henry

Speaker: Author (narrator)

Plot: Man looses wife, believes that she may still be around, wanders the town looking for her, never finds her.

Themes: Grief and loss of a loved one