A White Heron (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

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“A White Heron” is Jewett's best-known short story and the only one to have an entire critical book written about it, Louis Renza's “A White Heron” and the Question of Minor Literature (1984). Though Jewett wrote many other stories at this level, this one has been most often anthologized, and it connects thematically with works that have much greater reputations, such as Melville's Moby Dick (1851), Henry David Thoreau's Walden (1854), and William Faulkner's “The Bear” (1942).

Sylvia, a shy nine-year-old, is bringing home the milk cow when she...

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