You may write about a story by Franz Kafka or about a story by Anton Chekhov for Reading Response # 2

You may write about a story by Franz Kafka or about a story by Anton Chekhov for Reading Response # 2
Choose one:
1) Franz Kafka is known for writing absurd stories. Choose one of his stories and discuss Kafka’s use of absurdism in the context of Abrams’s glossary definition (on pp. 1-2 in A Glossary of Literary Terms).
OR
2) Chose one of Anton Chekhov’s stories and discuss how it is a story of character wherein, as Abrams describes, the focus is ā€œon the state of mind and motivation, or on the psychological and moral qualities, of the protagonistsā€ (Abrams, 1999, p. 286).
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57333/57333-h/57333-h.htm
read a day in the country, the kiss, the black monk, Kashtanka and Vanka