YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Story by John Cheever
Essays 421 - 450
noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...
1960s "introduced the theory that children are not born with a gender identity, but rather form an understanding of gender through...
well into adulthood. However, Lorber points out, "Individual actions construct social institutions and therefore... changes in in...
argue he is standing up to injustice in the world as it involves the young girls. As one author states, "At first glance, Sammy, t...
suspects of being promiscuous. She is a flirt and immediately begins flirting with the bunk hands. Curley, a highly volatile man, ...
kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...
dynamic. The couple was reunited after a period of ten years, but John is too preoccupied with what he perceives to be his ultima...
In five pages these stories as translated by John Bester are analyzed in an overview the concentrates primarily upon 'Kenju's Wood...
In ten pages this paper examines how autobiographical glimpses of author John Updike can be seen in these stories. There are 15 s...
In five pages Col. John Sartoris's role in the story is examined. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
In six pages this essay discusses John Winthrop's story as presented by Edmund Morgan in a consideration of the Puritan dilemma an...
In four pages the story adaptation relating to The Japanese Quince by John Galsworthy is discussed. There are no other sources li...
content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...
spelling of swor (to swoor) and the change from "hire" to "hir." In addition, though of the usable participle "to" clarifies the ...
of Chiltern - although he is a man of power and a man admired by many because he is a well-bred human, he nonetheless hides a terr...
his sword and kneels commanding that his enemy should knight him. Overcome with Arthurs bravery, as the noble could just as easily...
and he refuses to do so. Mary Kate abides by her brothers wishes, which confuses and frustrates Sean. The plot complications tha...
it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...
it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....
when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...
he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...
In five pages these short stories are compared in terms of the community importance that exists in each of them. Four sources are...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...
with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...
in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...
otherworldly and immovable. She is not a fully functioning human being. Louise Mallard is also damaged, but her weakness is physi...
until he is drunk so the main character gets drunk, passes out and then is told that Zaabalawi was there with him all night. This ...
as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...