Volume 13 · Issue 3 · September 2026
Title Emotion, Modern Narrative, and the Machine in Maysalun Hadi’s A Convertible on a Sunny Day
Rasool Kakalaw Saleem, Shireen Satar Hamadamin, Khumar Salam Bahram
Modern narrative is a central focus in current literary study. It marks a clear shift from classical storytelling formats and brings new ways of presenting human feelings and lived experience. This paper explores the gap between human storytelling—built on real emotion and personal experience—and machine storytelling, which uses artificial intelligence to generate language without actual sensory or emotional depth. By analyzing Maysalun Hadi’s collection A Convertible on a Sunny Day, this study shows how emotion shapes narrative texts. It looks at how emotional depth influences character development, story structure, and choice of language, while highlighting how real-life context gives stories their meaning. The core question is whether machine-generated text can truly copy human emotion, given that modern literature relies heavily on inner consciousness and felt experience. Using a descriptive, analytical, and comparative approach, the paper breaks the stories down into their key elements to examine how different narrative parts relate to one another. The study concludes that human narratives stand out for their emotional depth, subjective insight, and ability to create rich meanings tied to real life. Machine narratives, on the other hand, may be direct and structurally neat, but they lack psychological and emotional weight.
