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like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...

a grandfather is made clear as soon as Robert ushers Mr. Winfield into the car. Wiinfields granddaughter, Sheila, greets him. With...

death(The Death/synopsis). He simply lived his life like most people do: work, family, community. There was nothing else. Or was t...

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...

her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...

of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

Her Peers"). The Women The primary women, as a whole, present us with knowledgeable and observant women who quickly discover w...

can see that the Hills, which the man remarks are like White Elephants, "refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and ...

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

which is clearly understandable, yet she has not used her intelligence to rise above it all and find truth. She cannot exhibit kin...

the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...

My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...

speaking with the man directly, or setting about to use his mind to figure out a logical answer, he resorts to unethical behavior....

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 ...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...

he would not be getting any scholarships for furthering his education, he "joined the Indian Imperial Police Burma" (George Orwell...

right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...

reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...

This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...

controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...