"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” has symbolism throughout the setting. The setting of the story represents the decision that needs to be made by the American man and the girl as to whether or not she will go through with the operation. One choice is to choose life and have the baby - this is apparently what the girl truly wants, another choice is to make her dearly loved one happy and go through the operation. He is not ready for baby and the tension between the two is almost as sizzling as the heat of the Spanish sun.
It is painful when two people love each other, live together and become part of each other, but when the moment of responsibility comes, we really see the real faces. The man who made his girlfriend pregnant doesn’t want the baby and acts like a kid who wants to escape from the reality and leave his girlfriend by herself to handle the situation.In the end of the story we still don't know what decision the girl is going to take: "She was sitting at the table and smiled at him. "Do you feel better?" he asked. "I feel fine", she said. "There's nothing wrong with me. I feel fine."

"A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty

A “Worn Path”, by Eudora Welty, describes the journey of a brave elderly black woman, named Phoenix Jackson, who walks from her home to the city of Natches to get medicine for her sick grandson. The woman has many obstacles during her travel, but she seems not afraid of anything and successfully goes through any barrier.Having read the authors’ biography, I believe Eudora wrote about her own strong features of character and embodied them in the main character of the story.As Phoenix is struggling during her trip, facing many difficulties, such as, crossing a creek on a log, facing memory loss, going through the barbed-wire fence, having an encounter with a man, who points a gun in her face, Eudora torments during her life too. She lost her father when she was young and later had to spend fifteen years caring of her two brothers, diagnosed with severe arthritis, and her mother, paralyzed by a stroke. She faced death of her beloved people, but nothing broke the author, even gave her power to face more problems. I guess she wrote about an incredible woman (herself), who is strong enough to challenge any trouble.Anyone could find a part of his/her crucial life in this story, regardless of period of time, that’s why the narrative became so popular among the common readers.

"The Man in a Black Suite" by Stephen King

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The story, “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is the story of immature and recently married guy, who leaves his lovely wife, Faith, for a mysterious errand in a deep forest. Supposedly, he is going to meet with the Devil.
Yong Goodman Brown is very weak man, and is being naive of future consequences. During his journey, he lost his wife, confidence, believe, and in the end, the most important thing, his life. I think he was trying to prove himself that he can resist the Devil, unfortunately, there is always a limit in anything, and people shouldn’t cross that border, otherwise they will regret.

"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant

All women have that natural ability to have luxury life: we want fancy cloths, comfort and costly furniture in our apartments, to socialize in privileged society, unfortunately, not all of us can have these wonderful things and sometimes in trying to get more we lose what we have. The vivid example of this loss is the main hero of the story “Necklace”, Mathilde. In order to get a better way of life she lost her present one. I feel pity and regret for that woman because that misery could happen to any of us and no one knows when.

"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

“The Story of an Hour”, by Kate Chopin fascinated me with the surprised ending. The main character of the story, named Mrs. Millard, is told the news of her husband's death. With this news she locks herself in her room and finds some joy and sense of liberation in this death. For one blessed hour, she believes Henry dead, and in her own mind she sets about rebuilding her future, imagining her infinite possibilities; when he arrives at home safe and sound, however, Louise drops dead of a heart attack. Her family assumes, of course, that the shock of seeing Henry alive after believing him to be dead was too much for her; but Chopin implies otherwise. It seems more likely that Louise could no longer bear the thought of returning to a life in which she was always the "little woman," and never in control. She would rather be dead than go back to that way of living, and consequently, she dies. I guess women of that century had to pretend that they are happy in marriage, since the men managed everything, and Mrs. Millard was one of them.