Essays 241 - 270
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...
pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
In five pages this paper discusses the daily usefulness of prayer in an overview that includes such topics as divine planning and ...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...
boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...
This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...
In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...
In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...
In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...
as long as there are no restrictions that keep us from doing so. We are, in other words, only as free as our environment and reali...
the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...
it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...
life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...
through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...
still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...
The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...