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brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...

Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...

she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

to have a baby. They tried as often as Mrs. Elliot could stand it. They tried in Boston after they were married and they tried c...

third person (not a character in the story)" (Peterson elements.html). From this basic understanding of the element of point of...

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

that were written prior to 1980 will be compared with three from the later time period. Elizabeth Janeway published a critique o...

like Poes "The Casks of Amontillado," Joyces "The Dead" contains many "Gothic themes and motifs" (1). For one thing, the time of t...

real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...

actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...

discipline, and demonstrates the ambiguities and inadequacies within the structure of the system. The idea that the law is depende...

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...

from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

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...

Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...

house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...