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The present research article analyzes about the style of writing adopted by Joyce Carol Oates in her short fictions. Oates’ literary works are experimenting with form, genre, allusion, Gothicism and presents post modern allegories of American life. Most of her writing mainly focused on female experiences as both woman and a writer. Oates’ experimentation is with fictional form and genre in short fictions dealing with the psychology and culture of the contemporary life. It aims to analyze the story from stylistic point of view discussing the literary and rhetorical devices used in detail. The literary and formative elements of the story, such as first person point of view narration, characters, techniques and allegorical elements are discussed in detail, so as to study a better insight of the story. The article brings out the literary elements that Oates used in her short fictions are to justify female experience, obsession and transcendence and other recurring themes of the story.