What do Thomas Hardys short stories reveal about his society? :: English Literature

What do doubting Thomas Hardys minuscule stories reveal about his society?Thomas Hardy was born 1840 and died 1924. He composed most of hiswritings between 1871 and 1912. From 1912 till death he wrote poetry.Hardy enjoyed writing short stories because he had effected that withthe pressures and busy lifestyles of modern day life there was littletime to sit down and read a novel. One difficulty of a short story isthat it cant give in depth character analyses but they can graduallyallow someone to make their own analyses judging by Hardys heart and soul inhis stories. They be succinct which made them successful.What is a short story? For Hardy a short story wasnt a tale thatexplained the details in two sentences and left the reader blanklooking for clues as to where the story was going, the background ofthe story and who everyone was. Hardys short stories gave as muchdetail as workable and if something was missing, it appeared later on,he consistently made sure the reader would kee p up with the story andnever rushed his stories, making sure the reader got the near jist ofthe story. A very simple example of this is in The Superstitious MansStory where during the story Hardy includes a short paragraph whichis told by the narrator of the story, it provides both the listener inand out of the story with a piece of missing information which we needto understand it fully, because in The Superstitious Mans Storythere are two listeners, ourselves and Hardys metaphorical Alias Mr.Lackland.Hardys stories have a personal feel to them, when you read them he istalking to you, explaining and saying everything to you. For exampleThe Superstitious Mans Story and previous(a) Andreys Experience as aMusician Hardy uses a conversational tone, he writes his stories inthe way they would be told person-to-person, face-to-face as maybetravellers stories. gild has changed greatly since the time of Thomas Hardy, we nolonger have the closeness and reliability that everyone had then.Ha rdy lived in a community and describes a community in his shortstories where every member of the community knows everyone else, knowspast and present members and they are able to tell stories about eachof them. In this community everyone can swear on someone else, be it afriend or neighbour.A community like this is not found in cities as Hardy discovers whenhe moves to London in his early years, London was one of the firstmegalopolises. He was introduced to the city which he seen as a