How Short Stories Portray Horrors Chaos and Dismay

By utilizing these genres, a short story can be equally designed to portray a horrific or chaotic scene which has been witnessed or experienced by the author. Additionally, the descriptions can be suited to trigger a feeling of dismay among the readers. How Short Stories Portray Horrors, Chaos and Dismay In this discussion, two stories have been analyzed to identify how authors can portray these styles in their literary works. The short stories are “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor. From the first story entitled “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the author explains of a family journey to Tennessee for a vacation. The author applied this style to explain how a family can be divided over opinions, and how some children lack mannerisms by shouting at the father and murmuring that their wishes are never granted.

Even though Bailey agreed to the demands, he was dismayed by the children and their grandmother who kept demanding for side vacations. On their way back to the purported old house, the grandmother is horrified that she was confused and that, the actual old house is in Tennessee (O’Connor, 1962). This upsets her, prompting her to disturb the cat which frightens Bailey causing him to lose control. All over sudden, the family is in chaos again as the car rolls once but everybody escapes alive. It seems like a superstition or living in a haunted house. This makes the woman more frightened and dismayed such that she starts to imagine of ghosts who are crying for her help. The woman claims that, by staying longer in the rooms, the wallpapers are increasingly transforming to shapes of human beings, specifically, a woman who is creeping on her four limbs (Gilman, 1982).