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living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...
standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...
own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...
reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...
suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...
with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...
above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...
there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...
he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...
connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...
as "tiny jewels glowing behind the cover," which weave a "tapestry of transformed lives." This point is exemplified by the first s...
and monitoring others. He does not merely sit back in his office, but likes to possess the power that can make the young boys crin...
In five pages this paper examines how Houston promotes drama and literature through theater and writers groups and considers their...
likely remain lost for the rest of his life. Analysis When we look at the very beginning of the story we can clearly see an an...
Especially when he speaks of Stoksie, in this example: "I forgot to say he thinks hes going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in...
story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...
his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...
tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...
of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...
a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...