The Devices of Pithy

Oftentimes the pithy of short fiction creates a much more dramatic presentation of its intended meaning or questioning, especially when comparing it to the longer novels. Because of their length, short stories are confronted with the problem of developing substance, reaching a climax, and reaching some sort of resolution (or lack there of) in a very limited space. This methodology, or choice of form, causes the authors to move a story with swiftness and economy, rapidly weaving the reader through multiple emotional struggles and ordeals that are much more developed in novels. I don't find the shorter stories in a position where they need resort to a more simplistic level of material, but their allegories, when used, seem much more overt. From my limited experience with Indian short fiction, the ideas regarding responsibility and social uplift are always shaped as a complicated doubt of how one should deal with modernity. I feel it is difficult for me to draw too many conclusion considering the short list of examples I have to draw from.