The story “A White Heron” written by Sara Orne Jewett in 1886, is a spiritual story displaying great concerns for the higher things in life. A young nine year old girl who was once isolated in the city found joy in living in a farm being surrounded by nature. The young girl, Sylvia did not find joy in things such as money (Lantoop). She could have found a way to find wealth however, she knew that having money would not help her become the person that she wanted to be (Lantoop). The story “A White Heron” is considered a fiction story. The focus of this paper will be to analyze the story “A White Heron” and discuss the different literary devices used within the story. The setting of the story, the different symbolism and themes play a huge role within the story. Two of the main literary movements that Sara Orme Jewett uses in her short story “White Heron” were naturalism and realism. In naturalist fiction the author show now interest in establishing real nature in the real world, and in realistic fiction, it shows the realty of the real world (Aron). In “White Heron” the main character Sylvia goes back and forth between naturalism and realism. She is a creature of nature and is driven by the rules of nature, however she is able to choose her own destiny. This is what makes “White Heron” such an interesting story. The setting of the story plays a huge role, it is almost like another character in the story. Nature is a key point in the story, because Sylvia wants to protect it and the hunter wanted to tame it (Speals). Through the story the reader is shown how connected Sylvia is to nature that now surrounds her home in the country we know this when Jewett writes about how Sylvia can hear things before she sees them. The reader understands that it does not matter what it is, a bird’s whistle or the whistle of a man, she could tell the difference before she could even see what or who it was. Sylvia had a special