A Companion to the American Short Story

by Alfred Bendixen

Victory,” 244, 253; “A Mule in the

  Boat,” 302; “May Day,” 301, 306; “Myra

  Yard,” 245; “Pantaloon in Black,” 244,

  Meets His Family,” 300; “The Night

  246, 251; Pylon, 246; “Red Leaves,” 244,

  Before Chancellorsville,” 308; “O Russet

  251; Requiem for a Nun, 254; “A Rose for

  Witch!,” 307; “The Offshore Pirate,”

  Emily,” 220, 244–45, 252, 254, 288,

  300–01, 312; “On an Ocean Wave,” 313;

  312; Sanctuary, 245–46; Sartoris, 246;

  “The Popular Girl,” 296, 313;

  Soldier’s Pay, 246; The Sound and the Fury,

  “Presumption,” 302, 313; “Rags Martin-

  245–46, 248–50, 254; “That Evening

  Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les,” 301; “The

  Sun,” 220, 244, 248–51, 253–54; “That

  Rich Boy,” 220, 307–08, 313; “The

  Will Be Fine,” 249–50; These 13,

  Rubber Check,” 302; “The Sensible

  508

  Index

  Fitzgerald, Scott F. ( cont’d)

  Garcia, Christina: 422

  Thing,” 303, 311; “Shaggy’s Morning,”

  Garland, Hamlin: 17–18, 136, 138;

  308–09; “The Swimmers,” 311; Tales of

  Crumbling Idols, 168; Main-Traveled Roads,

  the Jazz Age, 295; Taps at Reveille, 296;

  199; “Under the Lion’s Paw,” 199

  Tender is the Night, 296, 303, 312; “The

  Garrison, William Lloyd: 191

  Third Casket,” 309; This Side of Paradise,

  Gates, Jr., Henry Louis: 73, 325

  299, 305, 309; “Three Acts in Music,”

  Gellhorn, Martha: 239

  309; “The Unspeakable Egg,” 301;

  ghost stories (see supernatural fi ction)

  “Winter Dreams,” 220, 298, 305–06,

  Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: 17–18, 105–16,

  310–11

  125, 205–07, 418; “An Honest Woman,”

  Fitzgerald, Zelda: 239, 299, 303

  111–12, 114; “Dr. Claire’s Place,”

  Flaubert, Gustave: 171, 177, 297; “A

  113–14; Herald, 193; The Home, Its Work

  Simple Heart,” 36

  and Infl uence, 193; The Man-Made World;

  Flint, Timothy: 14

  or, Our Androcentric Culture, 193; “Mrs.

  Ford, Ford Madox: 219, 227, 239; Women

  Beazley’s Deeds,” 112–14; “Why I Wrote

  and Men, 230

  ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’,” 206; Women

  Foucault, Michel: 95–96, 102

  and Economics, 155, 193; “The Yellow

  Franklin, Benjamin: 79; bagatelles, 3; “The

  Wallpaper,” 13, 18, 105, 107–11,

  Ephemerae,” 78; “The Speech of Miss

  114–16, 206

  Polly Baker,” 3; “The Witch Trial at

  Glasgow, Ellen: 18, 304, 408, 418; “Dare’s

  Mount Holly,” 79

  Gift,” 421; “The Past,” 421; “The

  Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins: 14, 17, 68, 91,

  Shadowy Third,” 421; The Shadowy Third,

  106–07, 121, 391–92, 408, 418;

  and Other Stories, 304; “Whispering

  “Bouncing Bet,” 101; “Brakes and White

  Leaves,” 421

  Vi’lets,” 101; “Christmas Jenny,” 92,

  Glaspell, Susan: “A Jury of Her Peers,”

  401–05; “The Elm Tree,” 101; “A

  106–07

  Gatherer of Simples,” 101; A Humble

  Glasser, Leah B.: 391–407

  Romance and Other Stories, 92; “The Lost

  Godey’s Lady’s Book: 26, 189–90

  Ghost,” 419; “A Mistaken Charity,”

  Goldstein, Rebecca: “The Legacy of Raizel

  100–01; “A New England Nun,” 92;

  Kaidish,” 459

  “Old Woman Magoun,” 92, 101,

  Goodrich, Samuel: 52–53

  418–19; “A Poetess,” 92, 101; “The

  Gothicism: 8, 16, 22–32, 46–47, 50–51,

  Revolt of Mother,” 106; “Sister Liddy,”

  58, 118, 130, 410, 412–14

  92, 100; “A Wayfaring Couple,” 92;

  Goyen, William: 256

  “The Wind in the Rose-Bush,” 419

  Grafton, Sue: 432; “The Parker Shotgun,”

  Freud, Sigmund: 172, 181, 333

  425

  Freytag, Gustav: 299, 301–03; Technique of

  Grand, Sarah: 106

  the Drama, 298

  Gresset, Jean-Baptiste-Louis: La Chartreuse,

  Frost, Robert: “Home Burial,” 48–49

  29; Ververt, 29; Vigiliae Mortuorum

  Fugitive Slave Law: 191

  secundum Chorum Ecclesiae Maguntinae, 29

  Furer, Andrew J.: 187–214

  Griffi n, Peter: 239

  Furman, Andrew: 450–65

  Grossinger, Harvey: “The Quarry,” 460

  Gaines, Ernest: Bloodline, 221; “The Sky is

  Haliburton, Thomas Chandler: “My First

  Gray,” 221

  and Last Speech in the General Court,”

  Gamio, Manuel: Forjando Patria, 258; La

  80; Traits of American Humor by Native

  Poblacion del Valle de Teotihuacán, 258

  Authors, 80

  Index

  509

  Hall, James: 14, 79, 120

  of the Province-House,” 61; Liberty Tree,

  Hammett, Dashiell: 425; The Big Knockover,

  53; Life of Franklin Pierce, 55; “Little

  304; The Maltese Falcon, 304; Red Harvest,

  Annie’s Rambles,” 9, 52; The Marble

  304

  Faun, 55; “The May-Pole of Merry

  Hardy, Thomas: 175; The Trumpet Player, 84

  Mount,” 56, 81; “The Minister’s Black

  Harlem Renaissance: 316, 471

  Veil,” 9, 53, 55, 63–64; Mosses from an

  Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins: 70, 221;

  Old Manse, 54, 62; “Mr. Higginbotham’s

  The Slave Mother: A Tale of Ohio, 70, 245

  Catastrophe,” 83; “My Kinsman, Major

  Harper’s Magazine, 13, 187, 202, 266, 410

  Molineaux,” 9, 52, 55, 57–58, 60; “The

  Harris, George Washington: 14, 83; “Blown

  New Adam and Eve,” 9, 54, 65; “Old

  up with Soda,” 84; “Rare Ripe Garden

  Esther Dudley,” 415; Our Old Home, 55,

  Seed,” 84; “Sicily Burns’s Wedding,” 84;

  62; “P’s Correspondence,” 64; “Passages

  Sut Lovingood’s Yarns Spun by a “Nat’ral

  from a Relinquished Work,” 64; Peter

  Born Durn’s Fool, ” 14, 83–84

  Parley’s Universal History, on the Basis of

  Harris, Joel Chandler: 17; Uncle Remus: His

  Geography, 52 ; “The Philosophy of

  Songs and Sayings, 70

  Composition,” 120; “The Prophetic

  Harte, Bret: 15, 17

  Pictures,” 64; Provincial Tales, 8, 52, 55,

  Hassam, Childe: 393, 397

  57, 61; “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” 9, 54,

  Hathorne, Daniel: 50

  66; “A Rill from the Town-Pump,” 9, 52;

  Hathorne, Elizabeth: 52

  “Roger Malvin’s Burial,” 9, 52, 55–56,

  Hathorne, John: 50

  60–61; The Scarlet Letter, 9, 46, 54, 61,

  Havazelet, Ehud: 458

  63, 92, 149, 414; Seven Tales of My Native

  Hawthorne, Julian: 54

  Land, 51; “The Seven Vagabonds,” 64;

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel: 8–11, 26, 36, 39,

  “Sights from a Steeple,” 9, 52; The Snow

 
; 50–66, 68, 83, 88, 297, 397, 408;

  Image, and Other Twice-told Tales, ” 54; The

  “Allegories of the Heart,” 9, 54; “The

  Story-Teller, 8, 52, 55, 62–64; Tales and

  Ambitious Guest,” 63; “The Artist of the

  Sketches, 63; Tanglewood Tales, 10, 54, 66;

  Beautiful,” 9, 54, 65; Biographical Stories

  “The Threefold Destiny,” 63; True Stories

  for Children, 53; “The Birth-mark,” 9, 54,

  from History and Biography, 53; Twice-Told

  65–66; The Blithedale Romance, 54, 193;

  Tales, 52–54, 60, 62, 120; “The Wedding

  “The Celestial Rail-road,” 9, 66, 83; “The

  Knell,” 63; The Whole History of

  Custom House,” 54; “The Devil in

  Grandfather’s Chair, 10, 53, 55, 61;

  Manuscript,” 64; “Dr. Heidegger’s

  “Wakefi eld,” 63; “The White Old Maid,”

  Experiment,” 65; “Drowne’s Wooden

  415; A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls, 10,

  Image,” 64; “Earth’s Holocaust,” 9, 54,

  54, 66; “Young Goodman Brown,” 9, 52,

  65; “Endicott and the Red Cross,” 56;

  55, 57–60, 88, 415

  “Ethan Brand,” 63; Famous Old People, 53;

  Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody: 60, 62

  Fanshawe, 51; “Feathertop,” 55, 83;

  Hawthorne, Una: 54

  “Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary

  Hedges, Elaine: 105

  Man,” 64; “The Gentle Boy,” 9, 53,

  Hemingway, Ernest: 5, 140–41, 219–20,

  55–56, 60–61; The Gentle Boy; a Thrice-

  224–41, 278, 296–97, 299, 304–05,

  Told Tale, 60; “The Gold Touch,” 10;

  309–12, 328–30, 334–35, 432, 454;

  Grandfather’s Chair, 53; 55–56; “Graves

  Across the River and Into the Trees, 238;

  and Goblins,” 415; “The Gray

  “After the Storm,” 234, 240; “An African

  Champion,” 56, 415; “The Great

  Story,” 238; “The Art of the Short Story,”

  Carbuncle,” 63; “The Hall of Fantasy,”

  238; “The Ash Heel’s Tendon,” 239;

  64; The House of Seven Gables, 54; “Legends

  “The Battler,” 228, 232; “Big,

  510

  Index

  Hemingway, Ernest ( cont’d)

  “Mr. and Mrs. Elliot,” 229, 312; “My

  Two-Hearted River,” 229–30, 311;

  Old Man,” 225, 229; “A Natural History

  “Black Ass at the Cross Roads,” 239;

  of the Dead,” 234; The Nick Adams Stories,

  “The Butterfl y and the Tank,” 238; “A

  225, 230, 238; “Night Before Battle,”

  Canary for One,” 234; “The Capital of

  238 ; “Nobody Ever Dies!,” 238; “Now I

  the World,” 225, 237; “Cat in the Rain,”

  Lay Me,” 232; “Old Man and the

  229, 232; “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,”

  Bridge,” 225, 237; The Old Man and the

  220, 235–36, 241; The Complete Short

  Sea, 231, 238; “On the Quai at Smyrna,”

  Stories of Ernest Hemingway, 238;

  228; “One Reader Writes,” 234, 240;

  “Crossroads,” 239; “A Day’s Wait,” 234,

  “One Trip Across,” 231, 233, 238; “Out

  240; Death in the Afternoon, 120, 146,

  of Season,” 225–27, 229, 232; “The

  233–34, 239; “The Denunciation,” 238;

  Porter,” 239; “The Revolutionist,” 228,

  “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,”

  229; “The Sea Change,” 235, 240;

  220, 228, 234; “The End of Something,”

  “Shakespeare and Company,” 239; “The

  228–29; “The Faithful Bull,” 238; A

  Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,”

  Farewell to Arms, 143, 225, 228, 233–34,

  220, 225, 236–37, 241, 303; “A Simple

  296; “Fathers and Sons,” 234; The Fifth

  Inquiry,” 240; “The Snows of

  Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories,

  Kilimanjaro,” 220, 225, 236–37, 241,

  225, 237, 241; The Fifth Column and Four

  303; “Soldier’s Home,” 220, 229, 241;

  Stories of the Spanish Civil War, 225, 238;

  “The Strange Country,” 239; “Summer

  For Whom the Bell Tolls, 238, 296; “Fifty

  People,” 230, 238; The Sun Also Rises,

  Grand,” 231, 240–41; “The Gambler, the

  225, 230–31, 233, 239; “Ten Indians,”

  Nun, and the Radio,” 240; The Garden of

  220, 232; “The Three Day Blow,” 229,

  Eden, 238; “Get a Seeing-Eyed Dog,”

  240; Three Stories and Ten Poems, 225,

  238; “Give Us a Prescription, Doctor,”

  229; To Have and Have Not, 231, 233,

  235; “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen,”

  239; “Today is Friday,” 231; Torrents of

  234; “A Good Café on the Place St.-

  Spring, 230; “The Tradesman’s Return,”

  Michel,” 239–40; “The Good Lion,” 238;

  231, 233, 238–39; “A Train Trip,” 239;

  “Great News from the Mainland,” 239;

  True at First Light, 238; “Two Titles of

  Green Hills of Africa, 227, 236; “Hills

  Darkness,” 238; “The Undefeated,” 230,

  Like White Elephants,” 220, 232–33,

  240–41; “Under the Ridge,” 238; “‘ Une

  235, 240–41, 303; “Homage to

  Génération Perdue’,” 239; “Up in

  Switzerland,” 234; “I Guess Everything

  Michigan,” 220, 225–26, 228–29, 237;

  Reminds You of Something,” 239; “In

  “A Very Short Story,” 229; “A Way

  Another Country,” 220, 232, 241; In Our

  You’ll Never Be,” 220, 234, 241; “Wine

  Time, 225, 227–31, 237, 239–40, 245,

  of Wyoming,” 234, 240; Winner Take

  296–97, 309; “Indian Camp,” 220, 228,

  Nothing, 225, 233–34, 237, 310

  232, 234, 241, 305; Islands in the Stream,

  Henry, O. [William Sydney Porter]: 241,

  234, 238; “The Killers,” 232, 240–41,

  304; “The Gift of the Magi,” 217; “The

  303; “Landscape with Figures,” 239; “The

  Ransom of Red Chief,” 217

  Last Good Country,” 230, 238; “The

  Herr, Michael: 146

  Light of the World,” 233–34, 241; “A

  Herrmann, John: 265

  Man of the World,” 238; Men without

  Hillerman, Tony: 432

  Women, 225, 231–32, 237; “The

  Himes, Chester: 471–72

  Mercenaries,” 239, “Miss Stein Instructs,”

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell: A Mortal

  239; “The Mother of a Queen,” 234, 240;

  Antipathy, 96

  A Moveable Feast, 225, 239–40, 303;

  Holocaust: 455–56, 458–60, 477

  Index

  511

  Homer: The Odyssey, 96, 380

  the Screw,” 120, 417; The Wings of the

  Hooper, Johnson Jones: 14, 84; “Hoss

  Dove, 417

  Allen, of Missouri,” 80; Some Adventures of

  Jarrell, Randall: 48–49

  Captain Simon Suggs, 14; “The Widow

  Jen, Gish: 222, 437, 447, 475; “Bellying

  Rugby’s Husband,” 80

  Up,” 447; “Eating Crazy,” 447; “House,

  Howe, E. W.: 17

  Hou
se, Home,” 447; “In the American

  Howells, William Dean: 15, 68, 89, 125,

  Society,” 447, 475; Mona in the Promised

  138, 163, 176–77, 310, 329, 451;

  Land, 447; “The Small Concerns of

  “Editha,” 15; The Great Modern American

  Sparrows,” 447; Typical American, 447;

  Short Stories: An Anthology, 125

  “The Water Faucet Vision,” 447; “Who’s

  Hughes, Langston: “Possum, Race, and

  Irish,” 222, 447, 475

  Face,” 221; “Simple” stories, 221; “Slave

  Jewett, Sarah Orne: 14, 17, 68, 91, 96, 121,

  on the Block,” 221

  130, 391–92, 396–402, 404–05, 418,

  Humphrey, William: 256

  482, 486; An Autumn Holiday,” 97,

  Hurston, Zora Neale: “The Conscience of

  100; Country By-Ways, 92, 102; A

  the Court,” 221; “The Gilded Bits,” 471;

  Country Doctor, 96–97; The Country of

  “Spunk,” 471; “Sweat,” 221; “Under the

  Pointed Firs, 25, 92, 97–100, 398–400,

  Bridge,” 221

  402–03, 486; “The Courting of Sister

  Hutchinson, Anne: 56

  Wisby,” 92, 97–98, 100; Deephaven, 92,

  398; “The Flight of Betsey Lane,” 92;

  Ibsen, Henrik: 168

  “The Foreigner,” 92; “Martha’s Lady,” 92;

  Imagism: 219

  “Miss Debby’s Neighbors,” 99; “Miss

  Impressionism (literary): 144, 282

  Tempy’s Watchers,” 92; A New England

  Irving, Washington: 3–9, 36, 51, 58, 68,

  Nun and Other Stories, 401; “An October

  78–81, 88, 136, 408, 410, 412–14,

  Ride,” 102; Old Friends and New, 92;

  483–84; “The Adventure of the German

  “The Only Rose,” 92; “River Driftwood,”

  Student,” 7, 412–14; The Alhambra, 7;

  102–03; “A White Heron,” 92, 98,

  The Devil and Tom Walker,” 7; “Guests

  102–03, 396–97, 399–401; A White

  from Gibbet Island,” 412; “The Legend

  Heron and Other Stories, 92, 398; “A

  of Sleepy Hollow,” 3–7, 88, 412–13; The

  Winter Drive,” 102

  Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, 7;

  Jin, Ha: 437, 475

  The Life of George Washington, 7; “Rip Van

  Josephson, Matthew: 265

  Winkle,” 3–7, 9, 58; Salmagundi, 7; The

  Joyce, James: 225, 282, 296, 304–05, 310,

  Sketch Book, 4, 7, 51, 136, 483–84; “The

  334–35, 488, 491, 493; “Araby,” 304,

  Spectre Bridegroom,” 412–13; Tales of a

  493; “The Dead,” 278, 298, 305, 310,

  Traveller, 7, 25, 51; “The Wife,” 7

  488; Dubliners, 245, 278, 304, 491, 493;

  Finnegan’s Wake, 265; Ulysses, 336

  Jacobs, Harriet: 73–74, 191