YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Life and Short Stories of Ring Lardner
Essays 451 - 480
npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...
In five pages this paper examines how the reader's perceptions are changed in the 4 sudden literary turns Tolkien incorporated int...
to her" (2274). Maggie had a disfiguring accident as a child, the result of the familys home burning to the ground. As her mothe...
In five pages this paper examines the social and economic implications of this short story in a character analysis of Bartleby. T...
thematic motif, relating individuals to others, themselves, and, particularly in the African stories, to the land. "The Old Chief...
In a paper consisting of six pages the thematic cycle of beginnings and ends is discussed within the context of this short story. ...
reminiscent of real people experiencing real social pain and suffering, in spite of the fact that Mathilde chose to wallow in what...
became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...
they are poor because they have no luck. Paul, being a small child, thinks that luck is a tangible object to be found, obtained or...
inner most desire is that God would "notice and...talk to him also" as he did to men in the Old Testament (55). Bentley comes to s...
stories often reflect the ideals, and the alternative ideals, of this time. While he has written numerous stories this particular ...
the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...
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...
reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...
This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...
controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...
hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...
telephone wire holding her to her duty like a leash. The next time she must telephone, or wait to be telephoned, nailed her to her...
has returned home for a visit with his mother and to reintroduce her to his lover, Wayne, who joins him at his childhood home. Nei...
nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...
"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...
such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...
very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...
and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...
in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...
(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...
or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...
makes it clear that the house is not a privilege, as a necessity. This is because if Remire lived in the camp, the other prisoners...
it is nurtured and kept in the right place, it is golden. When it is kept in the shadows, it turns brown and falls to the ground. ...