(In 2-3 pages): Analyze Frank Norris A Deal in the Wheat as a naturalist short story (i.e. what makes it a part of this literary movement?). The story appears as the first one in the collection at this link:
(2-3 pages): Compare and contrast the regionalism in Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” with one or more stories from Chestnutt’s collection The Conjure Woman. Both texts can be found here: