YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Elements of Short Stories
Essays 511 - 540
about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...
fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...
Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...
to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...
everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...
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...
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...
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...
I left it on the hall table for you. It had a map from Christine. Where is it? Ill check." "No. I thought you had it. There was n...
symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...
memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...
dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...
actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...
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...
even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...
well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...
of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...
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...
discipline, and demonstrates the ambiguities and inadequacies within the structure of the system. The idea that the law is depende...
the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...
Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...
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...
he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....