YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Short Story by John Cheever
Essays 61 - 90
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...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...
that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...
where Cheever first experienced heartbreak. That heartbreak came over the fractionation of his family that occurred when his fath...
relates the personal events that have influenced an individuals. One important point in considering this comparison, though, is t...
was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...
a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...
because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...
In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...
that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...
rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...
In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...
When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...
the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...
Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...
In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...
humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....
our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...
may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...
A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...
where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...
first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...
Gabriel learns that the song brought to Grettas mind a recollection of a young man from her home county. Pressing her further, he ...
In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...
innocently wanted to be a part of the mainstream, he found that in a little shore town, he could not shake his class position. T...
In five pages a psychological analysis of John Steinbeck's short story includes the flowers' symbolism and the depression of Elisa...
This paper compare these James Joyce and John Updike short stories in an analytical essay consisting of five apges. There are no ...