A detailed analysis of “Editha,” Howells’s most anthologized story, including the following: its themes (war, egotism, and romanticism vs. realism), structure, characters, imagery, symbolism, and symbolic names of the characters.
Four of the six pages of the student handout examine what is typically done in the three-part structure of a short story: Beginning (introduction of the characters, the setting, and the problem of the story); the middle (further development of the characters and th