YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Short Story by Ford
Essays 511 - 540
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...
Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...
Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...
the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...
of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...
a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...
an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...
stopped, at least for Neddy Merrill. It seems that for those like Neddy, money must be had at all costs, but he had a problem too,...
living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...
story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...
his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...
tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...
of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
likely remain lost for the rest of his life. Analysis When we look at the very beginning of the story we can clearly see an an...
Especially when he speaks of Stoksie, in this example: "I forgot to say he thinks hes going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in...
a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...
of judgments find themselves in usually violent altercations that force judgment to be passed on them. She admitted, "In my own s...
Hutchinson never protests the against the injustice of human sacrifice, but rather that the selection her family was not fair. A....
there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...
he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...
machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...
Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...
are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized per...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...