By: Sadie O’Hara
A short story is usually written to teach a lesson. Short stories can be anywhere from a few paragraphs to a few pages long, but they aren’t as lengthy as a book. Two examples of a short story are “The Interlopers,” a story about long useless arguments that should be set aside instead of wasting time on them. Another example of a short story is “The Story of an Hour,” which is about a woman with heart problems learning of her husband’s death, and then realizing he is alive. Now you may be wondering how these two have anything in common, but I think the moral is similar. In “The Interlopers,” the men have been wasting their lives fighting and trying to kill each other, when they could be prospering.