YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Four Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Essays 421 - 450
books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...
reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...
own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...
of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...
this day, of course, will differ from all others. What makes this a significant day in Miss Brills life is that she is about to be...
not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...
by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...
seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...
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...
close, as truly intimate with his wife as he is with this group of friends. Nick does not run away from his responsibility, but th...
In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...
attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...
her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...
its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...
as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...
stopped, at least for Neddy Merrill. It seems that for those like Neddy, money must be had at all costs, but he had a problem too,...
he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...
clerk in the store, he has no respect for his boss or the people who use his services. At the same time,...
him and who has lawful access to the mother" (Oedipal trajectory/Oedipal complex, 2004). As the boy develops he begins to realize ...
became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...
in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...
not strain her mental state. She must not write in her journal, she must not be in a room she finds more pleasant than the one cho...
to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...
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...