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took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...

mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...

her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...

her that he likes arguing for it makes the time go faster, but then he berates her for who she is and how she is attempting to mak...

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...

(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...

this point, the determined Mrs. Mooney obtains a separation from her husband, gains control of her remaining inheritance, custody ...

Like White Elephants" we have a man and a woman, although the characters are an American Man and a Girl, wherein the man is seemi...

a chicken farm. Of his life there and the annoying chickens he writes:" It is born out of an egg, lives for a few weeks as a tiny...

as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...

he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...

applied to literature in terms of presenting visual imagery in words that does not need to make sense and involves the subconsciou...

we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...

is true of the character Joy/Hulga in "Good Country People." Joy/Hulga has a heart condition, which prevents her from living the...

clothed. Later, the family takes a detour onto a country road in order for the grandmother to show them a "old plantation" that sh...

he recognizes this. They are a challenge and women have always been drawn to him. But, with this one woman he begins to become far...

and inwardly becomes free, realizing that what they have done is not wrong, but natural, and that she is truly, in her heart and s...

are the American couple and they are simply trying to get in an adventure before Mark dies. They have always wanted to see Ireland...

could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...

Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...

to pay her for her sexual favors. They are, however, friends it seems. He tells her, "Stephanie, its very simple. I have a lot of ...

her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...