Death of a Salesman is that rare thing: a modern play that is both a classic, and a tragedy. Many of the great plays of the twentieth century are comedies, social problem plays, or a combination of the two. Few are tragedies centred on one character who, in a sense, […]
Like many of Ernest Hemingway’s short stories, the short 1933 story ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’ uses its spare, direct dialogue to hint at the relationships between the characters and the themes the story is delicately and obliquely exploring. The story is about an old man who frequents a Spanish café […]
‘The Chrysanthemums’ (1937) is probably John Steinbeck’s best-known and most highly regarded short story. But although his novels such as Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, and The Grapes of Wrath are widely read and studied, the plots of Steinbeck’s short stories are not quite so firmly entrenched in […]