[Assess students' ability to identify and analyze symbolism, narrative perspective, and stream-of-consciousness techniques in early 20th-century modernist short fiction. Through close-reading of excerpts, learners should pinpoint key symbols, describe how narrative viewpoint (including unreliable and free indirect discourse) shapes interpretation, analyze interior-monologue and syntactic fragmentation as stream-of-consciousness strategies, and explain how these techniques contribute to thematic and historical modernist concerns.]