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Essays 91 - 120
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...
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...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
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...
In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...
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 five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...
In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...
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 ...
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 Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
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...
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...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
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 ...
decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...
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...
52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...
The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...
story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...