Colors of the short story in American literature

Al -Akkad believes that our way to understand a nation of nations and stand up to its culture comes through the knowledge of its literature and arts, and since the American people are a mixture of several migratory races with different cultures; The study of his etiquette was a kind of difficulty due to the difference in cultural heritage. This literature has gone through many stages and developments related to economic, political and social transformations on the American scene, so he moved from literature dominated by the bureaucratic religious character (Puritanism) to being influenced by political and social developments such as the struggle of independence from the colonizer, civil war, identity and equality issues. Al -Akkad was keen to present in this book examples of the short story of the most important American writers, so that it expresses the various American literary stages accurately.