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to kill, the speaker insists on frequently and rather adamantly reminding us that he is not mad. As the story reads on, I found m...

In two pages this play and short story by Susan Glaspell are contrasted and compared in terms of themes and characterization. The...

In seven pages the theme of revenge as depicted in this short story is analyzed as the author's personal commentary attacking the ...

free; and Joy, whose miserable disposition is anything but joyful. It is Joy who is the chief protagonist, an educated 32-year-ol...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the enslavement theme within these short stories from the perspectives of the revo...

This paper consists of six pages examines William Faulkner's life and the themes of life and death that abound in his novel The So...

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 ...

right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...

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...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...

makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...

became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...

or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...

"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...

traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...

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...

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

In eight pages these three short stories are considered in terms of summary and analysis of themes. Ten sources are cited in the ...

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...