Essays 151 - 180
the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...
constantly to the topic of the beautiful heifer that Uwe has purchased as a present for his bride. The cow cannot be separated fro...
the city contrasts with his depiction of the boys at play, trying gamely to be frolicsome and experience the joy of childhood agai...
she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...
"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...
who suffered a serious ax wound and is lying on the top bunk, above his laboring wife. When he heard this comment he "rolled over ...
A 9 page essay exploring St. Paddy's at the Sundown Bar and Grill, a short story that illuminates the differences in love and sex ...
In six pages this essay presents a modernist interpretation of this short story by Katherine Mansfield. Three sources are cited i...
This paper compare these James Joyce and John Updike short stories in an analytical essay consisting of five apges. There are no ...
This is a book review consisting of 5 pages that considers the collective work of short stories and essays and how the works stead...
In five pages this essay analyzes James Joyce's short story and the meaning of 'dead' within the characterization of Gabriel. The...
free; and Joy, whose miserable disposition is anything but joyful. It is Joy who is the chief protagonist, an educated 32-year-ol...
In six pages this essay discusses the positive characterization of the blind man in the short story 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver....
In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...
to kill, the speaker insists on frequently and rather adamantly reminding us that he is not mad. As the story reads on, I found m...
In two pages this essay compares these short stories in terms of symbolism, theme, and imagery. There are no other sources listed...
An essay of 5 pages that considers the worldview of Christian writer James W. Sire. After defining the worldviews of Existentiali...
In five pages this essay presents the argument that Nathaniel Hawthorne uses this short story to reflect his New England Puritanis...
is actually an "angel of light," as he serves as the "unwilling instrument of grace," by stealing Joy/Hulgas leg and leaving her s...
OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...
a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...
became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...
tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...