Essays 151 - 180
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
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 characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
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...
character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...
of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...
grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...
A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
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...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...
be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...