YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Four Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Essays 1231 - 1260
that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...
Especially when he speaks of Stoksie, in this example: "I forgot to say he thinks hes going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in...
traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...
them on their journey to death are, more often than not, lacking in any sympathy or emotion, just as the characters in the end of ...
"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...
and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...
a famous singer, a woman who appears also quite lonely and powerful. Her name is Madame Tradutorri and she suffers at the hands of...
they are poor because they have no luck. Paul, being a small child, thinks that luck is a tangible object to be found, obtained or...
inner most desire is that God would "notice and...talk to him also" as he did to men in the Old Testament (55). Bentley comes to s...
it is nurtured and kept in the right place, it is golden. When it is kept in the shadows, it turns brown and falls to the ground. ...
he would not be getting any scholarships for furthering his education, he "joined the Indian Imperial Police Burma" (George Orwell...
(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...
makes it clear that the house is not a privilege, as a necessity. This is because if Remire lived in the camp, the other prisoners...
telephone wire holding her to her duty like a leash. The next time she must telephone, or wait to be telephoned, nailed her to her...
has returned home for a visit with his mother and to reintroduce her to his lover, Wayne, who joins him at his childhood home. Nei...
This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...
the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...
in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...
reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...
and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...
stories often reflect the ideals, and the alternative ideals, of this time. While he has written numerous stories this particular ...
and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...
in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...
Prue has the insight to ask Gordon if he wants to marry her, Prue, when he falls out of love with this new person in his life. Go...
terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...
In five pages the fine line betwen love and hate is examined in a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short stor, 'Young Goodman B...
to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...
it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...