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Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...
distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...
definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...
cold hearted person. She was like this because she was afraid to really look at herself. She was also afraid to hope for anything ...
a surprise! She ... knew. Of course, you always hope for the best. She heard but she didnt hear" (Jones 166). There are several ...
serious illness. The five stages are generally thought to be denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance ("The stages of ...
In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...
Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...
could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...
her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
applied to literature in terms of presenting visual imagery in words that does not need to make sense and involves the subconsciou...
her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...
word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...
A section from this story is analyzed and then considered within the whole story's context in a paper consisting of five pages. T...
In five pages this story's 5th section is analyzed in terms of the wallpaper symbolism, what it projects, and how it relates to th...
In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...
for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...
In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...
by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...
age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...
with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
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...
In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...
Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...