Realism In "Editha" And "An Occurance At Owl Creek"

Melissa Kaiser

Suzanne Turner

ENG 252

October 1, 2009

Sense and Non-Sensibility

Realism is summarized as a response to a ro troopstic idea with emphasis on emotion, instinct, inventiveness, and the imprint that all things are good. Someone who is a realist believes in learnedness through experience. Ro universeticism can be summarized as emotional, ghostlike…a modern day hippie per say. “Editha” by William doyen Howells and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek” by Ambrose Bierce lay a romantic view of warfare with a naturalistic view of war. Both short stories romanticize war albeit in two different settings. “Editha” takes place during the Spanish-American war in 1898 and is the bosh of a young girl who sends her lover to war. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek” takes place in Alabama during the civic War and is the story of a man who learns the hard way.

“Editha” is a story that can easily anger anyone who has ever displace someone they love to war. She is in love with the idea of war and the nobility of war. She takes the reader on a journey into her gullible thoughts and silly romantic notions.



Editha tells the reader that “She had always supposed that the man who won her would have done something to win her; she did not experience what, but something. George Gearson had simply asked for her love, on the way home from a concert, and she gave her love to him without, as it were, thinking. But how it flashed upon her, if he could do something sacred to have won her – be a hero, her hero—it would be even better if he had done it before inquire her; it would be grander. Besides, she believed in the war from the beginning” (Howells 372). At the very beginning one can see Editha’s commit for a hero. In her mind she sees a young man fresh from battle surviving only for her. She maybe imagines him horseback riding into town estimable of war stories and exhausted but move into her arms while the towns...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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