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The Lament 
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SHORT STORIES
INTRODUCTION
 A 
short story is a brief work of prose fiction. It has a plot  which may be comic, tragic, romantic or satiric; the story is presented to us from one of the many available points of  view, and it may be written in the mode of fantasy, realismor naturalism.In the ‘story of incident’ the focus of interest is on the courseand outcome of events, as in the Sherlock Holmes story. The ‘story of character’ focuses on the state of mind andmotivation, or on the psychological and moral qualities of the protagonist, as in
Glory at Twilight 
. Chekov’s
The Lament 
focuses on form—nothing happens, or seems to happen,except an encounter and conversations, but the story  becomes a revelation of deep sorrow. The short story differs from the novel in magnitude. Thelimitation of length imposes economy of management andin literary effects. However, a short story can also attain a fairly long and complex form, where it approaches theexpansiveness of the novel, which you may find in
The Third and Final Continent 
in this unit.
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