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conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...
the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...
Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
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...
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...
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...
through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...
life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...
one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...
it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...
always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...
still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...