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Flannery O'Connor's Moment of Grace in 'A Late Encounter with the Enemy,' 'Greenleaf' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'

and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...

'The Life You Save May Be Your Own' by Flannery O'Connor and Religious Themes

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

'I Stand Here Ironing' Short Story by Tillie Olsen

BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...

'Drink My [Red] Blood' by Richard Matheson

with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher'

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

Viewing US History Differently

statement elsewhere, but, to the best of my recollection, there was never any serious attempt to turn Native Americans into a work...

Gothic Fascination of Edgar Allan Poe

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

'Odour of Chrysanthemums' by D.H. Lawrence and 'Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

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...

Symbolism and Characterization in Katherine Mansfield's Miss Brill

again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...

'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe and Setting

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

Three Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks

In five pages a trio of poems by Gwendolyn Brooks including 'Corners on the Curving Sky,' 'When you have forgotten Sunday: The Lov...

William Shakespeare Plays Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, and Journeys

In five pages the heroic journeys presented in each of these plays by William Shakespeare are analyzed in terms of their significa...

Animals in the Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm

and upper-class Germans, yet even those tales were traced from India and the Middle East (Schulte-Peevers). They were passed down ...

'A Family Supper' by Kazuo Ishiguro

equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...

'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Analyzed

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...

'An Ounce of Cure' by Alice Munro

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

American Literary Symbolism

353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...

Natural Born Killers Film by Director Oliver Stone

In five pages this 1994 film is analyzed in terms of story with character, cinematics with editing, and meaning with theme. Three...

Tone of Sammy in 'A and P' by John Updike

sheep-like qualities of the old maids in the store and the unattainable status of the girls he so desires, Sammy is caught between...

Setting in 'Old Mortality' by Katherine Anne Porter

can be emphasized that it is the psychological landscape that matters, not the physical one in this use of setting. Porter begin...

'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' by D.H. Lawrence and Motivation

In four pages this paper analyzes the D.H. Lawrence short story in terms of determining the young doctor's motivations. There are...

Moral Complacency and the Short Stories of Tadeusz Borowski

In five pages this paper analyzes This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen in a consideration of moral complacency in the short ...

Ellen Weatherall in 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall' by Katherine Anne Porter

In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of the title character Ellen Weatherall and considers her strengths and determi...

Raymond Carver's 'So Much Water So Close to Home'

In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of setting and character development. There is no bibliography included....

Commentary on Virginia Woolf's 'The Lady in the Looking Glass'

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner' and the Character of Paul

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' by Ambrose Bierce

formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him" (An Occurrence...). The third person point of view is d...

Analyzing A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

point that in order to become complete, we must learn more about ourselves and who we are. In order to do this, we need to experi...

Pardoner's Sexuality in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this paper analyzes the Pardoner's sexuality in a consideration of the stories from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey...

Class, Privilege, and Maturity in 'A and P' by John Updike

definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...