YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Selected Short Stories and Their Representation of Gender Conflict
Essays 601 - 630
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...
opens the story by saying that he has heard that when people go through some sort of strange or supernatural experience, they usua...
flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...
many years, that she hardly heard them at all" (Lawrence). In these references it is quite clear that Mabel is essentially...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...
long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...
she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...
as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...
reader/writer felt to be intriguing and important. The student requesting this essay may feel differently but the story of his fat...
movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...
cry and Nina apologizes, but Olive "shook her head," indicating that she need not apologize and, after getting control of herself,...
at times the exact opposite of what is being said. The once well-known short stories of O. Henry are masterpieces of irony: in one...
hallmark of cinematic portrayals of blindness in the 1960s and 70s, dramatized the fears of the able-bodied concerning disability,...
shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...
whom he ultimately has no sympathy for, indicating very strongly that the character of Nawab knows that people make their own choi...
adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...
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This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...
was I really going to be able to make it here for six months? I felt bad thinking this way - this was my parents home once, after ...
Joan Didions short story "On Going Home" is a story that describes Didions childhood home and the influences that she...
reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...
This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...
Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...
life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in followin...
the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...