... . 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 ... of the unconscious impulses, which are represented, in the first, through the image of "the black cat-, an embodiment of "the spirit of perverseness-, and in the latter, through the character...

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