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Story Analyzer — Free AI story analysis

Paste a short story, novel chapter, or prose excerpt and get a structured literary analysis — summary, themes, characters, plot structure, point of view, tone and style, literary devices, and FAQ. Powered by Claude Sonnet 4.6 with a structured-output schema.

Analyzing a poem instead? Use the Poem Analyzer.

Output sections
8
Max length
~5,000 words
Free per day
2 analyses

What you'll get back

01 · Output

Plain-language summary

A concise overview of what happens, who it happens to, and what the piece is about before any close reading.

A young couple, too poor for Christmas presents, each secretly sells their most prized possession to buy a gift for the other…
02 · Output

Themes & motifs

The ideas the story keeps returning to and the recurring images that carry its conceptual weight.

Sacrificial love, the irony of material value, poverty and dignity — each gift made worthless and priceless at once.
03 · Output

Character analysis

Each character's role, motivation, and arc — protagonist, antagonist, narrator, and the figures in between.

Della /Protagonist. Her impulsive sacrifice opens the story; her dread and hope as Jim reads her face close it.
04 · Output

Plot & structure

A section-by-section walkthrough of the narrative — how the piece builds, turns, and resolves, whether it's a full story or one chapter.

Turning point /Jim's flat, unreadable reaction to Della's shorn hair suspends the story between comedy and catastrophe.
05 · Output

Point of view & voice

Who is telling the story and from what distance — person, tense, reliability, and how the narration shapes what you're allowed to know.

Third-person narration that leans conversational, addressing the reader directly and editorializing on its own characters.
06 · Output

Tone & style

The prose register and emotional temperature — sentence rhythm, diction, irony, and how the style serves the story.

Wry and warm at once: mock-heroic inflation (“the Queen of Sheba”) set against plainly counted pennies.
07 · Output

Literary devices

Techniques at work in the prose — irony, foreshadowing, symbolism, imagery — each tied to a specific moment in the text.

Situational irony /Each gift answers a possession the other has already given up — the engine of the ending.
08 · Output

Reader FAQ

Anticipated questions a student or book-club reader might bring, pre-answered to aid independent study or discussion prep.

Q · Why does the narrator call them 'the wisest'?

The closing paragraph reframes the couple's apparent foolishness as wisdom: their gifts prove the love the objects were meant to honor.

How it works

  1. Paste the story

    A complete short story, one chapter, or any excerpt up to about 5,000 words. Title and author are optional but ground the analysis.

  2. We call Claude Sonnet 4.6

    A structured-output schema returns the same 8-section shape every time.

  3. Read & share

    Each result is saved to a permanent URL you can bookmark or send.

Tips for the best reading

  • Paste a complete unit of story. A whole short story, a full chapter, or a self-contained scene reads far better than a paragraph clipped mid-thought.

  • Keep paragraph breaks intact. Scene transitions and dialogue formatting are structural signals — the analyzer reads them as part of the craft.

  • Include the title and author when known. Metadata grounds the model in the writer's recorded style and era, and lets us link the analysis to our study guide if we cover the work.

Reader questions

Frequently asked