Writing Techniques: Imagery, Realism, and Story Reversal

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Writing Techniques
The authors Charles W. Chesnutt, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, and Sui Sin Far are talented in their delivery of the stories and the use of writing techniques such as imagery, realism, and story reversal. These techniques are prevalent in their short stories and they are attributed to their success, thus for a writer to be successful and have an influence on people, they should consider using these techniques to spice up their writings.
The Wife of His Youth by Charles W. Chesnutt is a reading that utilizes all the writing techniques mainly realism. The author describes the situation and the characters in the most real way possible and his mode of delivery keeps the reader hooked until the end of the story. The author introduces two characters in the beginning, Mr. Ryder, a leader at a social group and Mrs. Molly Dixon, a young girl visiting from Washington in spring. He gives more context on Mr. Ryder and the blue vein society, which required their members to be the kind of white which shows your blue veins. Mr. Ryder is then approached by a woman who claims that her husband is lost and she needs his help in tracking him. Mr. Ryder had gone to war but the author makes it seem like it’s just a coincidence that the woman’s husband got lost after the war. The author gives saddle clues in their conversation that the wife is talking about Mr. Ryder, and also Mr. Ryder is casually stating that he is the husband by the constant use of the word supposedly. This technique hooks the reader and leaves them in a state of anxious anticipation. The ending catches the reader off-guard as Mr. Ryder introduces the black woman as the wife of his youth. It was not easy to predict this due to the author's arrangement and choice of words throughout the whole story. CITATION Che \l 1033 (Chesnutt)
The yellow Wall-paper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson is another story that heavily relies on writing techniques mainly imagery. The story is written in a diary form in which the narrator recalls a room that is large and airy, the windows were covered in bars and it had a yellow wall-paper that was had started stripping off. You can feel the narrator's disgust for the room through the author's vivid description of the room. The effect of imagery is felt because the narrator is a woman who has been diagnosed with a hysterical tendency, therefore, anything she says to the husband, John, about the room is not taken seriously. John is the narrator’s caretaker and a respected physician thus the narrator doesn’t feel quali...