YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Stories of Margaret Atwood
Essays 211 - 240
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...
accompanied the commencement of an enterprise who you have regarded with such evil forebodings" (Shelley, 1999, p. 25). He is in P...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...
of superstition that he is there to stamp out. He suggests that the villagers build a new path skirting the school grounds; he rem...
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...
as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...
still places on the planet where nature is more important than man and his machines, and where nature actually "knows best" and sh...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
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 ...
this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...
cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...
It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...
a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...
This 4 page paper discusses four of E.A. Poe's short stories, and critical reaction to his work. Bibliography lists 6 sources....
careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...
way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...
agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...
letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...
comes to bail him out is tied to a tree in the jails courtyard and tortured; finally the ordeal ends when Mr. Chiu signs a false c...
(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...
men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...
on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at three short stories including "The Cranes", "Carnal Knowledge", and "The Necklace"....