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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...

a surprise! She ... knew. Of course, you always hope for the best. She heard but she didnt hear" (Jones 166). There are several ...

serious illness. The five stages are generally thought to be denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance ("The stages of ...

path reaches a dead end a new one begins. By choosing a poor elderly African-American woman as her tales protagonist, Welty is ab...

Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...

In the examination of the house she realizes that "during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yel...

against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

In one such commentary, "Managing political dissent," she offers up a look at Singapore from many perspectives. In this essay one ...

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

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...

otherworldly and immovable. She is not a fully functioning human being. Louise Mallard is also damaged, but her weakness is physi...

until he is drunk so the main character gets drunk, passes out and then is told that Zaabalawi was there with him all night. This ...

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

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

white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...

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...

Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...

first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...

even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...

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

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

he tells her that he never loved her when she asks: Dont you love me?" to which he replies "No...I dont think so. I never have" (H...

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

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