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Introduction Don’t Get Comfortable is written by an American writer named Naton Lesile. The short story is published in the late 1990s. It was awarded “one of the most popular short stories” in America in 1999. In addition, it was once listed in “Alternate Table of Contents” by 75 Reading Plus in Chapter 1 narration, “for those instructors wishing to teach the course topically, or to emphasize a particular topic in class.” However, maybe because the main achievement of the author is poetry, the short story has not received much attention from the literary circles and there are few articles or commentaries on it, neither in Western countries nor in China. Nevertheless, Don’t Get Comfortable was “one of the most popular short stories” in America, which proves that it has its own unique charm. As a matter of fact, the short story has broken up the bounds of traditional concepts in short story writing and wins the favor of many readers with unconventional structure, characters without well-defined traits, untraceable structure, irrelevant episodes to the theme and three different points of view. Literature is generally divided into four genres: novel, poetry, drama and prose and novel is divided into three forms: the short story, the novella and the novel. As far as the short story is concerned, there seems to be some rules or fixed patterns. It is generally believed that a complete story is composed of three parts: the beginning, the body and the end. In the first part, the author should present the setting (background) of the story, eg: the characters, time, place and, in most cases, the atmosphere. In the second part, which is the main body, events develop until a climax is reached. Then the story comes to the conclusion. But Don’t Get Comfortable appears to have broken all of these bounds. There is no so-called beginning, no rising action or climax in the short story. Furthermore, there is no clear-cut protagonist or hero, instead it is full of irrelevant episodes to the theme. And all of these give testimony to the unique and unconventional feature of this piece of work. 1. About the author Naton Leslie The author of Don’t Get Comfortable is Naton Leslie, who is a graduate of Youngstown State University and Ohio University and currently an associate professor of English at Siena College in New York. Lesile is a poet who focuses on the lives of working people in post-industrial America and he is the author of two volumes of poetry, Moving to Find Work (Botton Dog Press, 2000) and Their Shadows Are Dark Daughters (Pavement Saw Press, 1998) and a collection off short stories, Marconi’s Dream and Other Stories (Texas Review Press, forthcoming), winner of the 2001 George Corrett fiction Prize. In 2000 he was awarded a grant from the New York State Council for the Arts through the Saratoga Country Arts Council and in 1993 he received a fellowship from th e National Endoument for the Arts for poetry. In 2003, Naton Lesile is considered as the “best poet” by the Capital Region. 2. About Don’t Get Comfortable Don’t Get Comfortable is a short story, which is composed of several independent stories. It begins with a sentence of “this story is about a railroad detective named Charley Best” and tells several stories about “my” father’s grandpa, “my” grandpa, “my” father, “I” and Charley Best etc. Charley Best’s stories take place in a lumber and mining hill town of northwestern Pennsylvania in the 1920s. The title Don’t Get本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。