An Analysis of The Rain Child And Antigone

Short stories play an important role in literature, being sometimes more expressive than any novel of a more considerable length. Many people prefer them to novels: they are usually not so complex as novels are, there are only a few characters in them, they are easier to follow, and so on. They are popular all over the world. In this paper I would like to deal with short stories written by such great Canadian authors …

…quite mysterious and unexplainable, although I am sure that it is not incomprehensible. Both the short stories I have tried to analyse in this paper are in some way unique. I do hope that I have managed to point out the most interesting thoughts and ideas that the authors intended to express. I am sure that there do exist many interpretations of them, but how can anybody be sure that his is the correct one?