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Tone of Sammy in 'A and P' by John Updike

sheep-like qualities of the old maids in the store and the unattainable status of the girls he so desires, Sammy is caught between...

Protagonist and Antagonist in 'A and P' by John Updike

In one page this paper examines the short story by John Updike in an identification of its protagonist and antagonist characters. ...

'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

and commonplace New England town for the event. It could serve as the model for a Norman Rockwell painting that could be titled "T...

American Cultural Connection and 'The Celestial Railroad' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In six pages this paper examines how American culture is reflected in this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Eight sources are ...

Setting in 'Old Mortality' by Katherine Anne Porter

can be emphasized that it is the psychological landscape that matters, not the physical one in this use of setting. Porter begin...

'Daughters of the Late Colonel' by Katherine Mansfield

two women that reveals a great deal about their lives while simultaneously showing the effect of their fathers tyranny through the...

'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' by D.H. Lawrence and Motivation

In four pages this paper analyzes the D.H. Lawrence short story in terms of determining the young doctor's motivations. There are...

Jean Paul Sartre's 'The Wall' and Existentialism

In four pages Sartre's short story is examined in terms of how existentialism is contained within. There are no sources listed....

Ellen Weatherall in 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall' by Katherine Anne Porter

In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of the title character Ellen Weatherall and considers her strengths and determi...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Themes of Pride and Loneliness

In five pages this paper discusses these themes presented in William Faulkner's short story with also literary elements including ...

'To Build a Fire' by Jack London and 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin

In five pages these 2 American short stories are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources listed....

Ivan Ilych versus 'Slave Girl' Linda Brent

In one page this paper compares the characters Ivan Ilych from Leo Tolstoy's short story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' and Linda Brent...

Analysis of 'The Open Boat' by Stephen Crane

In three pages a short story analysis of 'The Open Boat' is presented. There are no other sources listed....

Symbolism in Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

fiction has become a cardinal rule, with the demand being even more stringent in the short story due to its compressed form. Rese...

Charlotte Pierce Baker and Houston A. Baker's Analysis of Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use' Reviewed

A review of this critical analysis of the short story 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker is presented in seven pages. There are no ot...

'A Small Good Thing' by Raymond Carver

In five pages this report examines how existential reality and daily life's transitory nature are depicted in the 1983 short story...

American Literary Symbolism

353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...

Symbolic Motifs and Gothic Imagery of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...

Guest of the Nation by Frank O'Connor and Character Depth

and Hawkins, two Englishmen. The setting is OConnors homeland of Ireland. The time frame is early twentieth century, during the ...

Father's Role and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the author's feelings concerning a father's role by blurring the past and the present in thi...

Ambiguity in 'A Clean, Well Lighted Place' by Ernest Hemingway

was eventually decided upon as a fix-it solution soon turned into a mistake of good intention when, in 1965, Charles Scribner Jr. ...

'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritan Beliefs

In five pages this essay presents the argument that Nathaniel Hawthorne uses this short story to reflect his New England Puritanis...

'A and P' by John Updike and Self Discovery

In 5 pages this paper examines how detail and contrast are employed by the author to thematically depict self discovery in this sh...

Tadeusz Borowski and the Holocaust

prisoners and the captors into villains and victims. He views the entire situation as evil, not evil perpetrated upon the innocent...

'The Dead' and James Joyce's Attack on Ireland

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

The Narrator's Role in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

Science and its Power in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

Class, Privilege, and Maturity in 'A and P' by John Updike

definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...

2 Works of Ernest Hemingway Analyzed

may have gone on behind the scenes with the authors own relationships with the opposite gender. THE SYMBOLISM This Hemingway vig...

'A Family Supper' by Kazuo Ishiguro

equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...