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waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...

social factor to which he is excluded, Abners anger is compounded by the fact that the Negro servant does not acknowledge his whit...

and having food passed to her through a slot" (Moffett 146). When Dixon mentions his plan, she resists the impulse to yell and tel...

inflicts diseases on the Pharaoh and his household How God is manifested: * God comes to Abimelech in a dream * God condemns Abi...

opens just after her birth. Like all babies, she is crying. Lucinda, a rather stupid fairy, is intent on giving Ella a "gift" and ...

upon is the storytellers role in conveying specific point by the end of the tale. This "moral of the story" is a pertinent focal ...

to indicate how these experiences had changed his internal landscape, and changed a vibrant young man into someone who is both pas...

because he is married to another woman and she will not compromise her morals or her principles. However, when she is offered a ch...

- to reach intellectual successes even those of sound minds have difficulty achieving. That Nash realizes such tremendous accompl...

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

When was the last time I had spoken his name? Those thorny old barbs of guilt bore into me once more, as if speaking his name had...

starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...

and supportive, as well as including the usual element of sexual attraction. The problem that Allie and Noah faced early on was ...

tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...

him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...

In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...

to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...

his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...

to my mind)--perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick!" (Gilman). Because her...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...

spelling of swor (to swoor) and the change from "hire" to "hir." In addition, though of the usable participle "to" clarifies the ...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...

several symbolic connotations in this name, primarily the contrast to the happy little dance called the Jig and the fact that she ...

modern-day utopias that seemed to have the best of everything. There were sporting events, community activities, performing arts,...