YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Stories Analyzed from Pickerings Anthology
Essays 211 - 240
The writer analyzes the short story Chac-Mool by Carlos Fuentes, and argues that it is representative of his style. The paper is f...
In five pages this essay analyzes the short story in order to determine that it is an example of feminist literature. Three sourc...
In seven pages Poe's works are analyzed within the context of his short stories 'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House o...
appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...
and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...
of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...
all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...
definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...
may have gone on behind the scenes with the authors own relationships with the opposite gender. THE SYMBOLISM This Hemingway vig...
distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...
Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...
formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him" (An Occurrence...). The third person point of view is d...
This paper consists of six pages and analyzes the symbolism that appears throughout each short story. Two sources are cited in th...
In five pages this paper analyzes the short story by Stephen King in terms of character, setting, theme, and point of view. There...
and fascinates her. The wallpaper is described as having "sprawling flamboyant patterns" that commit "every artistic sin" (13) co...
him and them" (Barna 324). The true source of the authors inner torment was never revealed, but there was little doubt that "evil...
In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of perspective, setting, tone, style, and symbolism. Seven sources are cited ...
he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...
wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...
every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...
it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....
In six pages this paper analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's short story in terms of female identity and youthful sexuality. Four sources...
the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...
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...
than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...
the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...
such a position where this is his best hope. His entire family seems thrilled that he can have such a good job with good pay, neve...