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is assumed that the narrator is offering a truthful representation, but the readers are expected to often "read between the lines"...

In ten pages 5 short stories from the collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes are analyzed in terms of the literary techniques emplo...

In five pages this undestated bookkeeper character is analyzed in terms of his importance to Carver's short story. Five sources a...

is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...

trouble getting through the fences. Frank and Kenny could have helped him; they could have lifted up on the top wire and stepped o...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

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...

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

sharpness of selfish satisfaction" (217). As this suggests, Dr. Jenkins feelings toward his hoard of art are not completely altrui...

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...

being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...

rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...

which is clearly understandable, yet she has not used her intelligence to rise above it all and find truth. She cannot exhibit kin...

of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...