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Story Summaries of Egypt's Middle Kingdom: "The Satire of Trades," "The Eloquent Peasant," and "The Dispute Between a Man and His Ba"

extremely cumbersome, requiring several annotations that would make its reading even more difficult. Therefore, she opted instead...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Use of Setting

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

The Cask of Amontillado

he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...

'I Want to Know Why' by Sherwood Anderson and Symbolism

are pure creatures and seeing them run or even trot, or perhaps even exist, makes this young man incredibly happy and content. The...

'Why I Live at the P.O.' by Eudora Welty

workings of identity, however, there are grand variances that separate one person from the next when it gets past a superficial le...

Characteristics of a Rebel in 'A and P' by John Updike

letting the weight move along to her toes as if she was testing the floor with every step, putting a little deliberate extra actio...

'The Judgement' by Franz Kafka

protagonist finds his fathers rejection of him to be too much to bear and continue living. Kafka begins "The Judgment" by pictu...

'On the Golden Porch' by Tatiana Tolstaya

a garden. Without end or limit, without borders and fences, in noises and rustling, golden in the sun, pale green in the shade, a...

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...

Themes of Hemingway's Short Story Collection In Our Time

End of Something," "Cat in the Rain," and "The Big Two-Hearted River (Parts I and II)." First well describe the stories, than anal...

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...

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....

'The Tell Tale Heart ' by Edgar Allan Poe

very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...

Reaction Paper on Toba Tek Singh by Murphy

lunatic by the name of Bashan Singh (Murphy, 2003). Everyone would refer to him as Toba Tek Singh (2003). He is one of the charac...

Major Themes of 'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

'A Clean, Well Lighted Place' by Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway makes clear his own feelings even without stating them by delving more into the older waiters character than the younger...

Marxist View of the Misfit Character in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

to save her family. Perhaps she can convince him not to kill anyone, but instead, she only pleads for her own life without much re...

'The World War I Los Angeles Airplane' by Richard Brautigan

at the same time he is not successful, such as the relationship with his grandfather and a wife. In terms of three specific events...

The Importance of Harley in O'Dell's Back Roads

of things then he can feel justified in being angry at his mother for leaving him as the father and provider of the children. Be...

'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant

reminiscent of real people experiencing real social pain and suffering, in spite of the fact that Mathilde chose to wallow in what...

Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King

In twenty pages this paper analyzes Bellow's text in terms of meaning and examines how the story represents a journey towards self...

Local Color in Three American Literary Works

In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...

Literary Analysis of 'Miss Brill' by Katherine Mansfield

In 3 pages theme, tone, and symbolism are analyzed within the context of Katherine Mansfield's short story 'Miss Brill.' There ar...

The Plague by Albert Camus

In three pages Camus's story is analyzed in terms of characterizations and their meanings especially in terms of quarantine isolat...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and Symbols

In five pages this paper analyzes Poe's use of symbols in this short story. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

'White Nights' by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In 7 pages this short story is analyzed in terms of its protagonist and whether or not it was modeled after the author who created...

Analysis Cinderella

In one page this much loved children's story is analyzed in terms of its retelling that is based on the film by Walt Disney as it ...

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...