YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Important Lessons of Character from Short Stories
Essays 601 - 630
way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...
themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...
brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...
Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...
again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...
The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...
white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...
a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...
the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...
even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...
It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...
it was: "Well be fine afterward. Just like we were before" (Hemingway NA). She wants to know how he is so sure and he replies that...
back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...
"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...
set down for them without making any fuss. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, authors of Writing and Reading Across the Curri...
many years, that she hardly heard them at all" (Lawrence). In these references it is quite clear that Mabel is essentially...
man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...
she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...
of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...
the Russian culture has long remained something of a mystery as well. Even despite the seemingly mysterious nature of Russian l...
opens the story by saying that he has heard that when people go through some sort of strange or supernatural experience, they usua...
flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...