What do Thomas Hardys short stories reveal about his society? :: English Literature

What do Thomas hardys short-change stories reveal somewhat his society?Thomas hardy was born 1840 and died 1924. He composed more or less of his create verballys between 1871 and 1912. From 1912 till death he wrote poetry.Hardy enjoyed writing short stories because he had realised that withthe pressures and busy mannerstyles of modern day life there was little succession to sit down and read a novel. One difficulty of a short story isthat it cant give in depth character analyses but they can graduallyallow individual to make their own analyses judging by Hardys content inhis stories. They argon succinct which made them successful.What is a short story? For Hardy a short story wasnt a tale thatexplained the details in cardinal sentences and left the contributor blanklooking for clues as to where the story was going, the scope ofthe story and who everyone was. Hardys short stories gave as muchdetail as come-at- subject and if something was missing, it appeared later on,he co nsistently made sure the reader would livelihood up with the story andnever rushed his stories, making sure the reader got the full jist ofthe story. A very simple example of this is in The superstitious MansStory where during the story Hardy includes a short paragraph whichis told by the narrator of the story, it provides both the listener inand out of the story with a piece of missing information which we needto understand it fully, because in The irrational Mans Storythere are two listeners, ourselves and Hardys metaphorical Alias Mr.Lackland.Hardys stories permit a personal feel to them, when you read them he istalking to you, explaining and axiom everything to you. For exampleThe Superstitious Mans Story and Old Andreys Experience as aMusician Hardy uses a conversational tone, he writes his stories inthe port they would be told person-to-person, face-to-face as maybetravellers stories.Society has changed greatly since the time of Thomas Hardy, we nolonger have the closenes s and reliability that everyone had then.Hardy lived in a community and describes a community in his shortstories where every member of the community knows everyone else, knowspast and present members and they are able to tell stories about eachof them. In this community everyone can depose on someone else, be it afriend or neighbour.A community like this is not found in cities as Hardy discovers whenhe moves to London in his early years, London was one of the first of allmegalopolises. He was introduced to the city which he seen as a