For your short story analysis essay, you have a choice of how to construct your analysis. You will choose among the short stories you have read so far, and compose an essay in which you do one of the following: Analyze the Theme, or Analyze a Character, or Compare or Contrast the Common Themes between two short stories, or Compare or Contrast Characters of two short stories, or Analyze the author’s use of Literary Devices in a short story. Short stories: A rose for Emily, The story of an hour by Kate Chopin, A Good Man is Hard to Find.