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10948326 No.10948326 [Reply] [Original]

Give me a nice short story about discoveries changing individuals. It can be physical mental, for better or worse or what ever

>> No.10948332

dubliners...

>> No.10948334

Demian is short and probably the type of story of which you're thinking

>> No.10949245

>>10948326
"Araby."

>> No.10949542

>>10948326

People don't usually change their basic personality as the result of a single experience, so you don't meet this very often in serious literature. One example I can think of is:

>The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macromber (Hemingway)

More common is the "quiet epiphany" type where someone just sees the world differently, although without necessarily doing something about it.

>Dubliners (Joyce)

is the obvious example, but Flannery O'Connor does this a lot too. It also comes up quite a bit in Raymond Carver, e.g.
>Cathedral
>Fat
>A Small Good Thing

and John Cheever, e.g.
>Just Tell Me Who It Was

A couple more random examples:

>The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar (Roald Dahl)
The important change isn't him acquiring the amazing talent, but right at the end, when he decides how to use it...

>The Lady With The Little Dog (Chekhov)
Some might not call this a "discovery", exactly, but the central character's personality and life certainly take an unexpected new direction...

>> No.10951031

>>10948326
Dagon

>> No.10951037

>>10949542
Good post my man

>> No.10952319

Here is the full text of a short story that matches your description, OP:
>*Pounces on you* *notices bulge* OwO whats this