YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Stories Analyzed from Pickerings Anthology
Essays 541 - 570
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...
who suffered a serious ax wound and is lying on the top bunk, above his laboring wife. When he heard this comment he "rolled over ...
Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...
camps, and symbolic of the true need to survive, something not really seen in the mother or the infant who all but seem to accept ...
that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...
end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...
way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...
Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
postman, then the stores and trades people, then the neighbors (Bellow, 2002). "But youll find the closer you come to your man, th...
three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...
bus she and Julian are taking downtown to the Y, his mother plays with the child (OConnor). She doesnt see that the childs mother ...
reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...
Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...
is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...
no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...
turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...
attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...
happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...
of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...
according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...
The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...