
Often readers view
short stories being deprived of consistent changes concerning their main characters. However, often characters of
short stories are susceptible to considerable changes to the extent that it is possible to speak about their self-development and self-realization within a
short story. In this respect, it is possible to refer to such
short stories as “The Picture” by Nawal Al-Saadawi, “The Lady with a Pet Dog” by Anton Chekhov, “Hills Like White Elephants” by Earnest Hemingway and many others. In such a way, it is obvious that characters of
short stories can change in the course of a
short story, while protagonists of the aforementioned
short stories proved to be able to self-development and self-realization, though such changes are not always easy for the main characters of
short stories that increases the dramatic tension conveyed within
short stories. In such a context, the self-development and self-realization of female characters is particularly noteworthy because often they are treated as second-class citizens, inferior to men.ì