Question

How does the interplay of the short story

Answer 1

create a meningful whole?

Answer 2

is that what you meant to ask?

Answer 3

In the case of short stories you have to make sure that the interplay between the elements in the story are important to the plot line otherwise you will confuse your reader and take away from the overall meaning of the whole piece. Another important thing to keep in mind is that if you have too many elements or too few elements in your piece the story will either be too simple or too complicated. I hope this helped :)