Reading Response to 3 Stories

I read three short stories: "Araby" by James Joyce, "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, and "The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty. I liked "The Sniper's" plot the best. It was intense and captivated my attention. The ending was brilliant. I would have never have guessed that the sniper shot his brother who was the enemy. Out of the three stories, I found this one to be the easiest to understand. With that being said, there is not really anything that could be placed in my literary analysis that hasn't been interpreted before or wows the reader. I don't feel like I could get into enough depth about this story to make a really amazing paper. It is pretty straight forward.

"Araby" by James Joyce and "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty on the other hand have more depth than  "The Sniper." Out of the two, I feel like "Araby" is the best choice for a literacy analysis. It has a lot of mystery and is open ended for interpretation. "A Worn Path" would not be a bad choice either, but I do not feel that it has the complexity that "Araby" has. I am still a little bit confused on the ending of "Araby" though as to why it read, "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."If there is no right or wrong answer for why this is here, it could be a great addition to a literacy analysis because it is an open-ended interpretation. I also found it very interesting the author of "A Worn Path" would chose to narrate the story in third person limited, as a opposed to first person. This could be an addition to a well-writtien literacy analysis if I chose to "A Worn Path" to do my literacy analysis on.