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Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

this right away. The author begins by writing: "At first, it appears that Paul is, perhaps, simply filled with the arrogance that ...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...

symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...

contrast in each of these dualistic aspects of the setting reflects the dichotomous void that exists between the two central chara...

one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...

it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...

always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...

this, Samsas preeminent concern is how he will explain this difficult matter to his boss, if he is in fact even able to get to wor...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...

the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...

pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...

The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...

This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...

The short story is Sister Flowers. This essay describes highlights in the story. There is one souorce listed in the bibliography o...