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of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

I left it on the hall table for you. It had a map from Christine. Where is it? Ill check." "No. I thought you had it. There was n...

house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...

hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...

telephone wire holding her to her duty like a leash. The next time she must telephone, or wait to be telephoned, nailed her to her...

has returned home for a visit with his mother and to reintroduce her to his lover, Wayne, who joins him at his childhood home. Nei...

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

Many factual elements of Schmids horrendous crimes and his persona impregnate Oates short story. Schmid is described in the "Life...

the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...

in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...

him that she wants to stop talking about it, indicating she feels completely powerless and is just going to do it and get it over ...

letting the weight move along to her toes as if she was testing the floor with every step, putting a little deliberate extra actio...

protagonist finds his fathers rejection of him to be too much to bear and continue living. Kafka begins "The Judgment" by pictu...

a garden. Without end or limit, without borders and fences, in noises and rustling, golden in the sun, pale green in the shade, a...

my birthday and my parents are throwing a party for me. Its no surprise, but thats just as well. I cant ever remember having a p...

to justify the decision we make that we are uncomfortable with. This is also seen with the consideration of walking up to the elep...

persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...

of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

workings of identity, however, there are grand variances that separate one person from the next when it gets past a superficial le...

Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...

The obvious conclusion that many students come to when considering this encounter was that Connie in effect encouraged Arnolds pur...

educated, for most people are in the future, and they just live a life that is filled with criminal activity. It is the norm and t...

his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...