YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Moral Complacency and the Short Stories of Tadeusz Borowski
Essays 211 - 240
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...
on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...
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...
cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...
her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...
a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...
books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...
the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...
beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...
the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...
not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...
BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...
other words it compels the reader to say, "What?!" or "Whoah. What happens next?" or "Wow, how did this happen?" Any combination ...
this only comes in the form of regret at the end. In fact, if anyone were to be bitter about things, it would have to be the gra...
ended as they could have logically ended. So, too, it must be stated that this spelling out of the ending of the mysteries is a ...
especially in inner city conditions, is a culture that relies heavily on community. Like other cultures, and unlike the majority o...
is mystical and unexplainable, in the house. They understand that they cannot necessarily see what is taking place, or truly put t...
journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...
a mother to do that. As Granny closes her eyes for "just a minute," Porter us an indication of how her life has been lived. She ha...
Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...
such a position where this is his best hope. His entire family seems thrilled that he can have such a good job with good pay, neve...
not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...
than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...
as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...
no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...
and private places; the divisions which existed between regular days and festive days; the divisions which existed between the vil...
great pain, screaming, the arrogance of the doctor comes out in the following: "But her screams are not important. I dont hear the...
tale: "The stories include The Courtship of Mr. Lyon,] a fairly straightforward interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, which is a...
who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...
clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...