Perspectives

In order to better understand “Vanity” by Charles Baxter, you must be able to put the short story into perspective.

Current issues

“Vanity” explores current issues that our modern world deals with. On the one hand, there is the issue of young enthusiasm and vanity that cannot be tamed by elderly wisdom. Young people nowadays tend to believe that they have been born...

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Literary period

The short story “Vanity” belongs to the literary current called modernism. Generally, modernist writers tend to focus more on the inner...

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Works in the same genre

To better understand the way in which dialogue helps rendering a story, we recommend you read Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “Long Walk to Forever”.

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