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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...
significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...
(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...
him that she wants to stop talking about it, indicating she feels completely powerless and is just going to do it and get it over ...
letting the weight move along to her toes as if she was testing the floor with every step, putting a little deliberate extra actio...
protagonist finds his fathers rejection of him to be too much to bear and continue living. Kafka begins "The Judgment" by pictu...
a garden. Without end or limit, without borders and fences, in noises and rustling, golden in the sun, pale green in the shade, a...
my birthday and my parents are throwing a party for me. Its no surprise, but thats just as well. I cant ever remember having a p...
of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...
asked her if he could feel her face. He felt every detail of her face and it touched her to such a degree that she felt compelled...
to justify the decision we make that we are uncomfortable with. This is also seen with the consideration of walking up to the elep...
persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...
the city contrasts with his depiction of the boys at play, trying gamely to be frolicsome and experience the joy of childhood agai...
in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...
But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...
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...
her training in society was different, for her focus was on religion and the proper way things should be done. While the mother in...
(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...
keep from feeling frightened. The residents are startled, no doubt, and even perhaps afraid, but they dont react appropriately to...
a well-to-do family. They were quickly blessed with a baby boy, and all seemed well with the family until Madame Valmonde reacted...
complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...
desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....
a part of the childhood experience. But then, a girl referred to only as Mangans sister (obviously the sister of one of his frien...
and possibly to establish a comfort level with something frightening, the townsfolk begin to contrast the angel with other area at...
thinking about making a living. But a predominantly capitalist economy meant that all goods and services, including works of art,...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...