A Municipal Report (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: O. Henry
- First Published: 1909
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1909
- Setting: Nashville, Tennessee
- Principal Characters: The unnamed narrator, Azalea Adair, “Major” Wentworth Caswell, Uncle Caesar
- Genres: Social realism
- Subjects: United States or Americans
- Locales: Nashville, TN
The Story
“A Municipal Report” is introduced by two meaningful epigraphs: A verse from Rudyard Kipling sings the pride of mighty cities, while a paragraph from Frank Norris asserts that only three cities hold value for a writer—New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco—and easily dismisses the possibility of anything interesting ever happening in Chicago, Buffalo, or (most absurd) Nashville. This story, ironically, is set in unlikely Nashville. It fuses a sense of history, romance, and Rand McNally, and reveals a narrative of universal human interest irrelevant to...
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