YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Stories by Melissa A Hardy
Essays 301 - 330
the society of post-socialist/communist Russia. One of her focuses involves a feud between a couple of the "regulars" at t...
not strain her mental state. She must not write in her journal, she must not be in a room she finds more pleasant than the one cho...
room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...
still places on the planet where nature is more important than man and his machines, and where nature actually "knows best" and sh...
this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
paper and open a vein. The point is that non-writers dont understand how difficult writing is; writers do, and frequently wish th...
she is the sort of woman who would love to go to such an event, but could not possibly go to such without looking regal and wealth...
cold hearted person. She was like this because she was afraid to really look at herself. She was also afraid to hope for anything ...
why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...
of superstition that he is there to stamp out. He suggests that the villagers build a new path skirting the school grounds; he rem...
"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...
as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...
enough cotton over the next summer to buy her a new coat. However, it is also clear that his mother feels compelled to hold James ...
tale: "The stories include The Courtship of Mr. Lyon,] a fairly straightforward interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, which is a...
beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...
not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...
BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...
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...
a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...
clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...
the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...
the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...
books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...
and the girls eyes [stop] rolling. At this point Mrs. Turpin asks her, What have you got to say to me?" (Bernardo [3]). This of...
speaking with the man directly, or setting about to use his mind to figure out a logical answer, he resorts to unethical behavior....
until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...
cigarette dangling out of the corner of his mouth, and a tie that had been loosened to hang limply against his shirt stood in fron...
This paper analyzes Christian's short story collection, Rain on a Tin Roof. The author focuses on details of Christian's coming o...
be left with a limp as a reminder of his close call, however. However, because of this illness, he would often be sent to live ...