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William Faulkner's Short Story 'Dry September'

beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...

Stories by Adam Haslett

Dad might claim to be perfectly lucid, but we soon learn that his 27 patent filings have come to naught, he has undergone electros...

Dark Stories of Gaitskill and Braverman_

track marks still showed. The fact that Lenny articulates the protagonists hidden thoughts and desires provides substantiation th...

Reasonable Doubt A True Story of Lust and Murder in the American Heartland by Steve Vogel

evidence at the trial. Hendricks was ultimately acquitted of the crime and released from prison in 1991. November 7, 1983 In t h...

Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down A Story of Modern War

it devotes practically all of its attention to a bullet-by-bullet account of the fighting surrounding the downing of the American ...

'I Stand Here Ironing' Short Story by Tillie Olsen

BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...

Realism and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...

Character Analysis of Nadine in the Short Story 'Water Child'

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...

Generation Representation in Amy Tan's Short Story 'Two Kinds'

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

Comparative Analysis of Latino Films Mi Vida Loca and West Side Story

in 1980, Puerto Ricans organized a protest outside the theater in order to draw attention to the stereotypical images of Latinos ...

Stories by Virginia Woolf, Their Themes and Symbolism

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

Lack of Conclusion in Short Story Mysteries by V. Nabokov and M. Atwood

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 ...

The Ernest J. Gaines Story The Sky is Gray

the conditions of life. If he were a young boy with no responsibilities he would have been focused on his environment in a very im...

Kate Chopin's Short Story 'The Storm' and Theme of Sexuality

In five pages this paper discusses how in this short story Kate Chopin depicts sexuality as a force of nature rather than as a pas...

Short Story Writer O. Henry

In five pages this paper examines the life of William Sydney Porter, a famous American writer of short stories who became more com...

Fitzgerald's Short Story, The Rich Boy

This paper analyzes Fitzgerald's short story, The Rich Boy in terms of the protagonist's behavior and refusal to grow up. This si...

Original Adventure Story 'Sun Solders'

and others call him "Prairie Dog." Why would someone call a squirrel a dog? Maybe they...

Short Story Mimetics and Verisimilitude

By the time we reach mid story, and the speech of Stella-Rondo, we have suspended disbelief, as we might in good theater, and bel...

Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories, Sociology, and Religion

In 5 pages this paper argues that analyzing the short stories of Flannery O'Connor from sociological as well as Catholic religious...

Ende's The Neverending Story and Beagle's The Last Unicorn Examined as Moral Fables

This research report looks at these two works in depth. They are examined as moral fables. This seven page paper has six sources...

The Signalman as a Ghost Story

the story may have reflected a time in Dickens life where the writer was significantly more in tuned to the transient aspects of w...

Peter Maas' Story of Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano, Underboss

points and major events that are outlined by Maas as a central part of their own paper. In 1992, Gravano was the highest ranking ...

The African-American Experience in the Short Story - James Baldwin and Langston Hughes Compared

This research report compares and contrasts the works of these two black authors. Short stories are discussed which look at how th...

Story Synopsis of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

In three pages a synopsis of this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe is presented. There are no other sources cited....

Treating Women and Men Differently in the Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Hills Like White Elephants, Up in Michigan and A Canary for One represents the inherent dichotomy that exists between conventional...

Richard Wright and 4 Short Stories

In seven pages the assessments of 3 critics are applied to the Richard Wright short stories 'The Man Who Lived Underground,' 'Long...

Women Short Story Writers

In five pages four feminist short stories by Alice Munro, Susan Minot, Grace Pale, and Nadine Gordimer are thematically compared ...

Short Stories of Richard Wright

In five pages this paper discusses how social realities are depicted in the themes and characters of Richard Wright's short storie...

Leadership Stories in Howard Gardner's Leading Minds

In ten pages this report discusses the leadership concepts featured in Howard Gardner's text with additional insights from Christo...

Working Against the Odds The Story of Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler

originated within themselves. In present-day language, some would have been considered "nerds," because they did not necessarily e...