This weekend, I read the three short stories I was assigned. However, one of thing stood out to me. "Sucker" by Carson McCullers, "The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty, and "Araby" by James Joyce was very interesting. One thing that I have noticed with many of the short stories, and particularly this one, is that at the end of the story, there are not happy endings. Most books and movies end happily, but lots of the shorts stories that I have read do not. I think it may be because books and movies take a long time to read/watch, so the author probably wants to please the viewer for spending so much time on their work. However, with short stories you don't spend so much time with them and you don't get as attached to the characters. In "Sucker", "The Sniper, and "Araby" the endings leave you sad.
Another thing that I noticed is that the stories are about very strange things that books would not be about. For example, "Araby" was about a guy who went to a bazaar and ended up going crazy. Other stories such as "The Waltz of the Fat Man" and "Harrison Bergeron" also had very strange plots.
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