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Dark But Not Always Gothic Writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

Literary Themes

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

The Power, and Pain, of Freedom: Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

Sammy Grows Up in the “A&P”

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

Literary Analysis: “Dubliners” by James Joyce

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

Willa Cather's Paul's Case (Analysis)

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

An Analysis of John Barth's Short Story, Lost in the Fun House

This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...

Actual Life Experience in 'The Open' Boat' by Stephen Crane

In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...

Analysis of Dubliners by James Joyce

In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...

'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

Human Nature and the Writings of Lee K. Abbott

In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...

Emily Grierson in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Phoenix Jackson in Eudora Welty's 'A Worn Path'

did not try to respect her or help her, indicating they merely thought she was odd. No one bothered to try to understand her neces...

Literature and Free Will

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

2 Short Stories on Clashing Religious and Social Values

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

Pinckney Benedict's Town Smokes and Symbolism

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Plotting and Suspense in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...

A Comparison of the 1950s Movies All About Eve and Showgirls

This 7 page essay explores female meladrama genre. 6 sources are listed....

A Review of Everyday Use

quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...

Gender and 'Pickup' Lines

Look at the odds she said. It is during the day or early evening; there is good lighting; people are sober, and there is a slim p...

Kate Chopin's Life and Writings

In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Characters of Lily Briscoe and Mrs. Ramsay

In five pages these two female characters are compared. There are no other sources listed....

The Death of Samuel

boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...

Short Stories

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

Franklin’s Inner Conflict and Resolution in Judy Troy’s Short Story, “Ten Miles West of Venus”

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

Three American Short Stories

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

Five Short Stories - an Analysis

decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...

Chopin’s Tragic “Hour”

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

Comparison of Clever Manka and The Story of an Hour

story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...

A Short Story by Ford

home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....