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Responsibility and Guilt in 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

The obvious conclusion that many students come to when considering this encounter was that Connie in effect encouraged Arnolds pur...

Faulkner's Rose for Emily/Time Imagery

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

Conflict in Willa Cather’s Short Story ‘The Sculptor’s Funeral’

(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...

How Flannery O’Connor Reveals Herself in Her Short Stories ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find,’ ‘Good Country People,’ and ‘Greenleaf’

of judgments find themselves in usually violent altercations that force judgment to be passed on them. She admitted, "In my own s...

'A White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett

In six pages this paper analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's short story in terms of female identity and youthful sexuality. Four sources...

Representation of Community in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'

In five pages these short stories are compared in terms of the community importance that exists in each of them. Four sources are...

Stephen Crane's "Open Boat" and setting

with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...

Witches, Faith and the Devil an Analysis of Young Goodman Brown

point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...

The Biblical Ruth

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"

what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...

Elementary School and Short Story Writing Instruction

itself; character(s)-the people in the story; plot -what is going on in the story or what happens; and the mood -what is the feeli...

'Greenleaf' by Flannery O'Connor and the Symbolic Importance of the Bull

This short story is discussed in an analysis of the many types of bull symbolism featured throughout in a paper consisting of five...

'Sorrow Acre' by Isak Dinesen and Parallels Between Christianity and Judaism

In five pages this paper examines the religious parallels that exist within this short story by Isak Dinesen. Four sources are ci...

Short Stories of Emilia Pardo Bazan

In eleven pages the feminism of Emilia Pardo Bazan is considered within the context of her style of writing and short stories. Fo...

Kate Chopin Tackling Taboo and Controversial Subjects in 'The Story of an Hour, 'A Respectable Woman,' and 'Desiree's Baby'

This paper examines how women's sexuality, divorce, and miscegenation are addressed by Kate Chopin in this trio of short stories i...

Synopsis of 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

In seven pages this report presents a synopsis of the famous short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in 1948. The...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and the Roles of Tradition and Myth

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

'Odour of Chrysanthemums' by D.H. Lawrence and 'Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...

Edith Wharton's 'His Father's Son' and Point of View

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

'A View of the Woods' by Flannery O'Connor

fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...

Violence in 'How to Tell a True War Story' by Tim O'Brien and 'Battle Royal' by Ralph Ellison

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Gender Controls

In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...

Masculine Identity in Literature Questions Answered

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...

The Short Story Chac-Mool by Carlos Fuentes

The writer analyzes the short story Chac-Mool by Carlos Fuentes, and argues that it is representative of his style. The paper is f...

Metaphor in 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver

extensively from both the perspective of the unsighted as one who fails to see the beauty of the world around him to the sightless...

'A Prisoner Who Wore Glasses' and Bessie Head

In a paper consisting of five pages this short story is considered in terms of its message, style, symbolism, and power struggle c...

Analyzing 'Sun and Moon by Katherine Mansfield

is assumed that the narrator is offering a truthful representation, but the readers are expected to often "read between the lines"...

Themes in 'To Build a Fire' by Jack London

In five pages this paper discusses the themes of life and death evoked by Jack London in his short story 'To Build a Fire.' Four ...

Flower Symbolism and Imagery in 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin

This essay consisting of two pages examines the symbolic representation of flowers within the context of this short story by Kate ...

Gender Relationships in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

even Hemingway himself consciously does not, that "blowing things heads off" is not the way to prove a mans masculinity. "What imp...