YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :I Stand Here Ironing Short Story by Tillie Olsen
Essays 301 - 330
the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...
enough cotton over the next summer to buy her a new coat. However, it is also clear that his mother feels compelled to hold James ...
as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...
this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
paper and open a vein. The point is that non-writers dont understand how difficult writing is; writers do, and frequently wish th...
domestic tendencies in their society. In "The Lottery" there are many characters and in "After You, My Dear Alphonse" there are ...
The grandmother thinks she has the answers and is saved, religiously or otherwise, but yet she perhaps seems to realize that this ...
room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...
End of Something," "Cat in the Rain," and "The Big Two-Hearted River (Parts I and II)." First well describe the stories, than anal...
cold hearted person. She was like this because she was afraid to really look at herself. She was also afraid to hope for anything ...
why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...
she is the sort of woman who would love to go to such an event, but could not possibly go to such without looking regal and wealth...
of superstition that he is there to stamp out. He suggests that the villagers build a new path skirting the school grounds; he rem...
"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...
a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...
still places on the planet where nature is more important than man and his machines, and where nature actually "knows best" and sh...
This 4 page paper discusses four of E.A. Poe's short stories, and critical reaction to his work. Bibliography lists 6 sources....
cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...
It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...
agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...
letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...
comes to bail him out is tied to a tree in the jails courtyard and tortured; finally the ordeal ends when Mr. Chiu signs a false c...
way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...
(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...
men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
This 9 page paper gives an example of a short story which related to the technology of self driving cars. This paper includes desc...