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mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

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

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...

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

in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

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

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

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

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

In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...

In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...

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

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

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...

his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...

Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...

be the natural order of things, with themselves and those like them, of course, were divinely placed atop this orderly universe, g...

our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....