YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Essays 181 - 210
always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...
it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...
life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...
still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...
This essay pertains the way in which Chekhov uses nature and atmosphere to underscore characterization in The Duel. Seven pages in...
Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...
out and the family, along with their dog Alligator, kill it. The drovers wife shows great strength of character here; she not only...
52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...
Don DeLillo are both stories about observation, but they are completely different, and the difference is unsettling for people who...
short story A Good Man is Hard to Find is a horrific narrative of delusion, lies and mass murder. It is also anthologized constant...
the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...
decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...
Garcia Marquez seriously or are they an absurdists slanted look at the world? This paper argues that even though they are often co...
ways that any change would be impossible for her. But when Mary Grace whispers her venomous insult, the message strikes home and R...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
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...
nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...
tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...
Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...
as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...
character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...
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 ...
the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...
Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...
the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...