Essays 1171 - 1200
is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...
In five pages this paper examines how short stories depict love in terms of similarities and differences found in Susan Minot's 'L...
In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...
In six pages this paper discusses the symbolism of the cask that appears throughout Edgar Allan Poe's compelling short story. Eig...
and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...
The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...
In a paper consisting of five pages this short story is considered in terms of its message, style, symbolism, and power struggle c...
at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...
appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...
In six pages these two short stories are compared and contrasted in terms of girls' roles in each tale. There are no other sources...
criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...
terms, the trancendentalist is occupied with the natural over the synthetic. He uses vivid images in his explanation of what natu...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...
two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...
taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...
all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...
The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...
In five pages this paper discusses how the philosophies of Descartes and Heidegger manifest themselves in this short story by Samu...
In six pages this research paper considers post colonial women writers in a discussion of Rosario Ferre's 'The Youngest Doll' and ...
In five pages this short story by D.H. Lawrence is subjected to a Freudian psychoanalytical interpretation with the character of M...
Dave's perspectives on masculinity are examined in this analysis of 'The Man Who Was Almost a Man' short story by Richard Wright c...
In three pages a synopsis of this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe is presented. There are no other sources cited....
In 5 pages a short story analysis that features the effects of government corruption upon rural Russia is presented. There are no...
In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...
In three pages Raymond Carver's last short story is analyzed in terms of culture and setting. There are no other sources cited....
In seven pages the indifference represented by this famous short story by Stephen Crane is critiqued. Four sources are cited in t...