YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Story by John Cheever
Essays 601 - 630
When Pelayo discovers an old man sporting wings in a sandy marsh and summons his wife Elisenda to take a look to assure he is not ...
her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...
of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...
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...
readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
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...
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...
what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...
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...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
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...
My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...
traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...
that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...
them on their journey to death are, more often than not, lacking in any sympathy or emotion, just as the characters in the end of ...
he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...
a famous singer, a woman who appears also quite lonely and powerful. Her name is Madame Tradutorri and she suffers at the hands of...
of nature and the unveiling of secrets; a theme which is well illustrated in The Use of Force. As Johnson (2004) notes, the narrat...
they are poor because they have no luck. Paul, being a small child, thinks that luck is a tangible object to be found, obtained or...
and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...
became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...
"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...
such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...
very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...