I know that this story is still taught in English Lit courses (just peruse all the study-aids online to see that), and I am assuming that the focus has expanded in such courses to address the racist and misogynistic elements now recognizable in the story.  When I teach these first four pages, I focus exclusively on the craft of scene-building: I’m not much interested in addressing the rest of the story.  I read it once and that was enough.  This focus is all about craft and structure, and I trea...