YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Six Short Stories Summary and Analyses
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Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...
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...
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...
traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...
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 ...
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...
of nature and the unveiling of secrets; a theme which is well illustrated in The Use of Force. As Johnson (2004) notes, the narrat...
books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...
reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...
lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...
and monitoring others. He does not merely sit back in his office, but likes to possess the power that can make the young boys crin...
he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...
connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
In five pages this paper examines how short stories depict love in terms of similarities and differences found in Susan Minot's 'L...
In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...
The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...
In a paper consisting of five pages this short story is considered in terms of its message, style, symbolism, and power struggle c...
at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...
extensively from both the perspective of the unsighted as one who fails to see the beauty of the world around him to the sightless...
The ways in which Faulkner portrays the themes of death and love in these two short stories are considered in five pages. There a...
In five pages this essay discusses the supernatural and psychological narratives that are featured in Poe's short story 'The Black...
In five pages this paper discusses the themes of life and death evoked by Jack London in his short story 'To Build a Fire.' Four ...
determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...
In twelve pages the many twists and turns Poe incorporated into this horrifying and entertaining short story are examined. Ten so...