YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Review of African Short Stories
Essays 931 - 960
no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...
criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...
two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...
The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...
taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...
all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...
like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...
unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...
fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...
ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...
to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...
says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...
from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...
prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...
the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...
the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...
to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...
to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...
Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...
of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...
everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...
Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...