Write about your “favorite” story we have read this semester as well as your “least favorite” story we have read this semester. A couple of questions to consider regarding your favorite story: Why was this story your favorite? What set this story apart from the other stories we read this semester? One question to consider regarding your least favorite story: Why did you not like this story? i.e. What did you utterly hate about your least favorite story? List – “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving (Romanticism) – “The Birthmark” by Nathanial Hawthorne (Romanticism) – “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe (Romanticism) – “Bartelby, The Scrivener” by Herman Melville (Realism) – “The Necklace” by Guy Du Maupassant (Realism) – “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell (Realism) – “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin (Realism) – “The Lady With The Little Dog” by Anton Checkhov (Modernism) – “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway (Modernism) – “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman (Modernism) – “Blood Burning Moon” by Jean Toomer (Modernism) – “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” by Delmore Schwartz (Post Modernism) – “The Balloon” by Donald Barthelme (Post Modernism) – “The Babysitter” by Robert Coover (Post Modernism)