"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" is a masterpiece short story by Francis Bret Harte. The story is drawn with ordinary images, but it contains a lot of hidden feelings and inner thoughts through the characters' actions. John Oakhurst is a gambler who often wins money in playing cards with people in Poker Flat. In the beginning of the story, the narrator describes Mr. Oakhurst as if he commits a crime and he is worthy to receive a punishment: exile. However, throughout the story, Mr. Oakhurst demonstrates that he is completely different than his first appearance. Everyone in Poker Flat judges him as...

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... the gaps. We can say that Carver's style is simple on the surface, but underneath you can see that something else is going on. Carver's characters are ordinary persons with an ordinary job in an ordinary situation. "Fat" tells the story of a waitress who serves an obese customer. But this simple event may well change the waitress" life. So Carver converts a dull situation ... of birth. This interpretation is possible but it doesn't explain all the elements in the story. The question is whether an interpretation has to explain everything of the story. Another analysis of this short story...

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... dismembered to decorate the village without making the poor village more beautiful, which shows the confrontation of the villagers to the giant. Therefore, it shows a disagreement between the changes from ordinary to extraordinary in the stories respectively. The two "drowned men" both have special appearances, but they are treated differently. In the stories, the two drowned men are strange ... some want to remember the handsome drowned man and some want to forget the drowned giant. Therefore, the two stories strike differences in their respective themes. (1205 words) Works Cited Analy...

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