Points of View : Revised Edition

by Moffett, James; McElheny, Kenneth R.

• ISBN13: 9780451628725
• ISBN10: 0451628721
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-01
• Publisher: Signet

Summary

Since its original publication in 1966, this volume has attained classic status. Now its contents have been updated and its cultural framework enlarged by the orginal editors. Many of the 44 stories come from a new writing generation with a contemporary consciousness, and this brilliant blending of masters of the past and the brightest talents of the present achieves the goal of making a great collection even greater.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
INTERIOR MONOLOGUE
A Telephone Call	15	(6)
Dorothy Parker
I Stand Here Ironing	21	(11)
Tillie Olsen
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
Straight Pool	32	(4)
John O'Hara
The Lady's Maid	36	(5)
Katherine Mansfield
...& Answers	41	(15)
Joyce Carol Oates
LETTER NARRATION
Inter-Office	56	(6)
Rosellen Brown
A Bundle of Letters	62	(34)
Henry James
A Wilderness Station	96	(30)
Alice Munro
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General	126	(12)
Ambrose Bierce
DIARY NARRATION
The Yellow Wallpaper	138	(17)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book	155	(9)
V. S. Naipaul
Amahl and the Night Visitors	164	(17)
Lorrie Moore
SUBJECTIVE NARRATION
The Somebody	181	(8)
Danny Santiago
My Side of the Matter	189	(11)
Truman Capote
My Sister's Marriage	200	(14)
Cynthia Marshall Rich
Why, You Reckon?	214	(6)
Langston Hughes
A & P	220	(7)
John Updike
Distance	227	(12)
Grace Paley
DETACHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Christmas Eve at Johnson's Drugs N Goods	239	(18)
Toni Cade Bambara
The Circuit	257	(6)
Francisco Jimenez
First Confession	263	(9)
Frank O'Connor
A Coupla Scalped Indians	272	(14)
Ralph Ellison
Birthday	286	(12)
David Wong Louie
The Passing	298	(8)
Durango Mendoza
MEMOIR, OR OBSERVER NARRATION
The Voice from the Wall	306	(14)
Amy Tan
Country	320	(9)
Jayne Anne Phillips
Scales	329	(14)
Louise Erdrich
The Bridle	343	(18)
Raymond Carver
The Eggs of the World	361	(7)
Toshio Mori
ANONYMOUS NARRATION---SINGLE CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW
The Five-Forty-Eight	368	(15)
John Cheever
The Stone Boy	383	(13)
Gina Berriault
Doby's Gone	396	(8)
Ann Petry
Act of Faith	404	(18)
Irwin Shaw
Come Out the Wilderness	422	(26)
James Baldwin
ANONYMOUS NARRATION---DUAL CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW
Sinking House	448	(13)
T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Only Rose	461	(15)
Sarah Orne Jewett
Strong Horse Tea	476	(8)
Alice Walker
Uglypuss	484	(25)
Margaret Atwood
ANONYMOUS NARRATION---MULTIPLE CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW
Fever Flower	509	(13)
Shirley Ann Grau
The Suicides of Private Greaves	522	(27)
James Moffett
Inez	549	(6)
Merle Hodge
ANONYMOUS NARRATION---NO CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW
A New Window Display	555	(9)
Nicholosa Mohr
The Lottery	564	(10)
Shirley Jackson
Powerhouse	574	(12)
Eudora Welty
Afterword	586	(17)
References	603	(1)
Related Works	604	(1)
James Moffett
Acknowledgments	605