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She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...

In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...

In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...

the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...

In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...

in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...

In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...

In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...

quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...

our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...