... . That is why the shape of short story is so well fitted to express this experience of the quest for identity. American writers, such as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers and others have all experienced the approach of this theme in their short stories. The way they have ... envisaged their works centered on the theme of the quest for a specific identity is part of their process of defining their own identities as writers in the f...

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