Short Stories

So far all of the short stories we have read for class have been dark and depressing. I don’t feel that literary fiction is often lighthearted or cheerful because the human condition isn’t bright. Often time people can look at a situation and think of the negative aspects rather than the positive because there are few completely optimistic people in a world full of hatred and anger. Naturally, a person will be selfish if it means that they can advance themselves in society and satisfy their personal desires rather than considering their peers. There is so much that can be said about human nature and almost every point that an author wishes to make on the subject could be written in gloomy manner. Society isn’t on the right track where it currently stands and it will never get there. There are too many people with no morals and even those with morals aren’t perfect and fall under the temptation to lie or take advantage of others. There will always be fighting between groups of people because not everyone sees eye to eye. There will always be rape and war and hate crimes because there will always be people that do what they want, when they want, and to who they want. There is almost nothing good that can be said about human nature in general and I feel that the authors we have read so far have done a skillful job of getting across their ideas through their dark stories.