YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :I Stand Here Ironing Short Story by Tillie Olsen
Essays 271 - 300
who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...
Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...
not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...
than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...
and private places; the divisions which existed between regular days and festive days; the divisions which existed between the vil...
as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...
such a position where this is his best hope. His entire family seems thrilled that he can have such a good job with good pay, neve...
constantly to the topic of the beautiful heifer that Uwe has purchased as a present for his bride. The cow cannot be separated fro...
until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...
cigarette dangling out of the corner of his mouth, and a tie that had been loosened to hang limply against his shirt stood in fron...
This paper analyzes Christian's short story collection, Rain on a Tin Roof. The author focuses on details of Christian's coming o...
the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...
true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...
and the girls eyes [stop] rolling. At this point Mrs. Turpin asks her, What have you got to say to me?" (Bernardo [3]). This of...
speaking with the man directly, or setting about to use his mind to figure out a logical answer, he resorts to unethical behavior....
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...
be left with a limp as a reminder of his close call, however. However, because of this illness, he would often be sent to live ...
the perspective of Japanese culture, particularly in regards to "proper" conduct for women. From the beginning of the tale, Osen...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
what they had just read (TeacherFocus.com). If they had not been shocked they would likely not have done this, and they were proba...
gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...
rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...
tale: "The stories include The Courtship of Mr. Lyon,] a fairly straightforward interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, which is a...
clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...
not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...
her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...
a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...
beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...
the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...
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...