Perspectives
We recommend you put the short story “Her Share of Sorrow” by Tessa Hadley into perspective to better understand the author’s style, the literary period and the text’s connection with similar literary works.
Current issues
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Literary period
Written in 2015, the short story belongs to the 21st-century literary period. Most of the topics explored by 21st-century writers are topics related to everyday life or current issues related to social, political or historical contexts …
Works with the same theme
The theme of discovery (or self-discovery) has been explored in multiple short stories throughout time. Out of them, we recommend “The Lumber Room” by Saki, a short story in which a young boy emerges into a new world by discovering a framed tapestry in the lumber room of his aunt’s house. If you read the short story, you will notice that there are many similarities between the boy named Nicholas and Ruby from “Her Share of Sorrow”. The …
