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down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

cold hearted person. She was like this because she was afraid to really look at herself. She was also afraid to hope for anything ...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

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

enough cotton over the next summer to buy her a new coat. However, it is also clear that his mother feels compelled to hold James ...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

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...

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...

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

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

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

his mother. Sheppard fails to see the depth of the boys grief, and Norton hangs himself in despair. His suicide is an attempt to b...

car deliberately so that Henry would work on it, and thus be restored to his old self. This doesnt seem to match up with the idea ...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

he likes the fact that his wife is confused and thinking he is a homosexual. Frank takes advantage of her confusion and...

may have gone on behind the scenes with the authors own relationships with the opposite gender. THE SYMBOLISM This Hemingway vig...

equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...

of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...

did something after it was over. The fact that he did not help is an idea that plagues him and so one can go on to look at more me...

unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

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