Essays 421 - 450
attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...
Gregory talks about how his mother got angry when he threw out a free coat and Williams speaks of how his parents loved the kids, ...
woman who has given her life to being a wife and a mother and she is simply trying to understand why her son expects to live his l...
the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
In five pages this paper analyzes This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen in a consideration of moral complacency in the short ...
of twenty she had received a proposal, which she had promptly declined, and at the age of fifty she had not yet lived to regret it...
blue hotel against the "dazzling winter landscape of Nebraska," so that the comparison of the two makes Nebraska appear to be a "g...
In fifteen pages women's roles are contrasted as they relate to the Hemingway short stories 'A Canary for One,' 'Che Ti Dice La Pa...
Tony Hillerman's collection of stories are discussed in an analysis of historical detail with 'The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo' b...
the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...
In a paper consisting of five pages the argument is presented that within the short stories 'The Darling, 'The Betrothed,' and 'Th...
who despises her life and dreams of wealth and social status. When she is finally invited to an elegant reception, she complains ...
were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...
In five pages this paper examines the themes featured in William Faulkner's short stories 'Dry September,' 'The Bear,' and 'A Rose...
in Gilbs narrative is that Jake really doesnt know how to be anything other then deceptive and manipulative, the small-time con ar...
life must endure social intolerance at one time or another; however, certain groups face prejudicial persecution on a regular basi...
anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...
era has wielded its impact on the mother and her young daughter who moves through the one temporary home after another, for the mo...
from Londons story which illustrates how the man is ignorant and in need of the weather to make him strong and enlightened: "But a...
a lady....
this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...
In five pages this paper assesses the impact of the winter woods' setting on 'Doe Season,' a 1985 short story by David Michael Kap...
In seven pages this research paper features a comparison of the short stories 'Good Country People,' 'A Good Man is Hard to Find,'...
life is at stake as the narrator expresses the fact that a man will actually freeze to death if he cannot get a fire going. The ...
In six pages this paper examines how temptation is featured in the Hawthorne short stories 'Young Goodman Brown,' 'The Minister's ...
In a paper consisting of 7 pages a short story about a teenage girl who seeks to feel her own heart is presented and the film she ...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages two short stories featured in an instructional text on writing are contrasted and compared. Ther...
Raymond Carver's A Small Good Thing and John Updike's Separating both deal with the family. This paper examines the two short stor...
This paper examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, Babylon Revisited and addresses the themes of characterization and addiction. Th...
This research report compares and contrasts the works of these two black authors. Short stories are discussed which look at how th...