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    A Study Guide for Sarah Orne Jewett's "White Heron"
    A Study Guide for Sarah Orne Jewett's "White Heron"
    A Study Guide for Sarah Orne Jewett's "White Heron"
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    A Study Guide for Sarah Orne Jewett's "White Heron"

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    A Study Guide for Sarah Orne Jewett's "White Heron," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535842907
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      A White Heron

      Sarah Orne Jewett

      1886

      Introduction

      When A White Heron appeared in 1886 as the title story in Sarah Orne Jewett’s collection A White Heron and Other Stories, the author was already established as one of the finest local color writers the United States had produced. This was Jewett’s eighth published book, and she had enough influence with her publisher, Houghton, Mifflin, to open the book with the story, although it had already been rejected by the Atlantic Monthly magazine as too sentimental and romantic. Jewett’s instincts, in this case, were right. The story of a young forest-dwelling girl who must choose whether or not to tell a handsome young hunter the secret of where the rare white heron has its nest was immediately recognized by critics as a treasure; it has since become the most admired and most widely anthologized of Jewett’s nearly 150 short stories. While some critics have faulted the story for its shifts in narrative point of view which they saw as lack on control on the author’s part, others have praised Jewett’s narrative shifts, which they find add an important dimension to the narrator’s role. Over the past century critics have explored themes of good versus evil, flesh versus spirit, nature versus civilization, feminine versus masculine world view, and innocence versus experience in A White Heron. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, another well-regarded nineteenth-century New England writer, praised the story. An anonymous 1886 reviewer in the Overland Monthly called it a tiny classic, and noted that its themes never were interpreted with more beauty and insight.

      Author Biography

      Known primarily as a regional writer, Sarah Orne Jewett spent most of her life on the rugged Maine coast that is the setting for much of her work. She was born in South Berwick, Maine, on September 3 1849, one of three daughters of an old and prosperous New England family. Both of her parents were readers, and

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