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OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

and indeed she is the most likeable person in the story, because she is the one who solves the mystery and suggests its resolution...

to do with self-preservation. We know that the house stands next to their playground, and that it is the only structure left stan...

has ultimately nothing to do with emotions. Although Mel is obviously a learned man, and a doctor and perhaps arrogant to some ext...

with that in mind it becomes obvious that religion is such an important part of this story that one cannot ignore it. In first l...

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

is actually an "angel of light," as he serves as the "unwilling instrument of grace," by stealing Joy/Hulgas leg and leaving her s...

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...

country seems to be in a perpetual state of war with its neighbors, and on the fact that this eternal war has become the norm. Th...

she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...

trouble getting through the fences. Frank and Kenny could have helped him; they could have lifted up on the top wire and stepped o...

by her husband and left to raise four small children alone. In order to do so she had to work, so she had to find people to take c...

ways that any change would be impossible for her. But when Mary Grace whispers her venomous insult, the message strikes home and R...

deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...

short story A Good Man is Hard to Find is a horrific narrative of delusion, lies and mass murder. It is also anthologized constant...

story that provide real insight into human motivation in the space of a very few words. This paper analyses the story. Discussion ...

In the OConnor story, a family comprised of a husband and wife, their two children and the husbands mother take a road trip. Altho...

the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...

Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...

was not a matter of live or die. There was no real peril. Almost certainly the young man would have passed by. And it will alwa...

she has moved to the city and been educated. One sees perhaps the only conflict this mother has in her life because it is a confl...

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

bursts" (Vonnegut, 1961). George, her husband, was brilliant and as such represented a threat to the status quo and so he was forc...

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

glimpse of life in the South 15 years after the end of the Civil War. This paper is a close reading and interpretation of the end ...

Necklace" is present the narrative within the context of the readers understanding of Mathilde Loisels character, who is described...