The two stories are interesting and popular because they have several attributes that make a good fiction. For instance, the two stories keep the reader is a suspense mood that keeps the reader engaged throughout the story. The themes and plot involved in the two stories are relevant to the modern society thus making it easy for the reader to associate with the occurrences emanating from these stories.  The female character in the story “Lusus Naturae,” is suffering from a serious illness that gives her undesirable traits of “yellow eyes, pink teeth, red fingernails, and hair on chest and arms”. Through her, the themes of rejection and conflict are clearly expressed.  The monster girl is despised by her family members and the society until she hopes for solace in death. She gets to a point where she questions her humanity “I was a thing…In what way is a thing not a person?  “I am a human being,” I could say. But what proof do I have of that? “I am a lusus naturae!” (par. 38). The narrator draws sympathy for this girl from the reader.  The story ends in suspense as we do not get to know whether she commits suicide or the society would get rid of her.

In the story ” Roman Fever”, the plot and the themes are also easily related to the real society. The narrator has artistically used past tense to give a story of two female characters who were close friends since their childhood years. The two ladies,  Alida Slade, and Grace Ansley, happens to be in love with one man Delphon.  Slade sends a letter to her friend Ansley, supposedly from Delphon, which she responds and they happen to meet. Eventually, Delphon marries Ansley, and they conceive a daughter “I had Barbara” (par. 116).  ‘’. As a result, Aslade is jealous of Ansley simply because she is married to the man she loved. Contempt and resentment can easily be drawn from the stories.

In essence, the two stories are fascinating and popular. Although they are fictions, there is some realism in them since we can easily associate with the occurrence in these stories. Emotions such as jealousy as expressed in the “Roman Fever” and conflicts in the “Lusus Naturae” are emotions apparent in the modern society.

Works Cited

Mays, Kelly J. The Norton Introduction to Literature: Shorter 11th Edition. Ed. New York: W.    W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2013. Print.

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