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أ. رضـا السـعـيـد عـبـد الـبـاسـط.
كـلـيـة الآداب – قـسـم اللغـة الإنـجـلـيـزيـة.
جــامـعـة الـقـاهـــرة.

Preface

A large number of students face great difficulty in understanding, and appreciating Short Story. The fault is usually not theirs, but rather that of their teachers who face the same difficulty.

Short Story is not difficult to understand, once we grasp the quintessential characteristics of its elements and principles. Once we achieve that, we will find it easy to understand, and a short story

In the part which discusses the characteristics of English short story, I tried to give representative and carefully chosen examples. They are well-known examples which I liked and enjoyed, I hope that you will enjoy them too, and that they will instill in you a love of a short story

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Short Story
The short story
The distinction between the novel and the short story is the same as the difference between a film and a photographic shot. It is a modern literary genre, appropriate to portray actual life as it consists of small issues. The writer depicts a single incident from daily human life and places it in a frame; and he invites the reader to consider this particular incident.

The short story and the novel
Both the short story and the novel are prose narratives, but they use different artistic methods. The short story is noted to depend more on vision rather than on feeling or intellect. In a short story, the kind of narrative and thematic development found in the novel is not found, as the story's meaning relies on the single moment chosen for presentation.

The main character's experience does not unravel gradually, but whatever change takes place in the life of the character is usually sudden and violent. Instead of the novel's narrative sequence, the moment singled out from the character's life appears in stages or periods. The phase selected by the writer is usually a distinct stage in the life of his character. Whereas in the novel, a character's life-time can be presented, the short story's compact form cannot afford the dramatization of a whole range from a character's youth to his maturity, and eventual self-revelation.

The short story can approach the same subjects as those of the novel. The difference would lie in the pattern, the pace and the manner in which the story ends. The writer of the short story is required to show rather than tell what happens, to hint rather than explain things for the reader, to present rather than describe.

Being a compressed form of prose fiction, details are not found in a short story. Conversely, it is preferable not to say too much, as the aim is to provide a complete impression. In a novel, the writer first creates the characters, then the incidents and situations are assigned to them. In the case of the short story, the incidents are found first, then the characters are there to perform and be involved in them. Character and action are inseparable and interdependent.