YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Two Short Stories by Jin and Chopin
Essays 301 - 330
her, he would be interested in having sex, but she wants to read a book on Richard Nixon. As soon as she settles in, however, she ...
In two pages this play and short story by Susan Glaspell are contrasted and compared in terms of themes and characterization. The...
In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...
This paper analyzes how symbols and illusions are used in 'The Bear,' a short story by William Faulkner, in five pages. Two sourc...
In five pages this essay examines how Puritanism and witchcraft contribute to the setting of this short story by Nathaniel Hawthor...
In five pages this paper examines how an individual's social conflict is demonstrated through the use of religious imagery in this...
In five pages this paper examines the oral cultural traditions of Africa in a short story analysis of 'Talk' recounted by Courland...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the enslavement theme within these short stories from the perspectives of the revo...
readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...
lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...
connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...
as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...
son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
pianists hand that the "music seems almost to play itself" (Machlis 84). Therefore, it is probably not surprising that so many o...
by her husband and left to raise four small children alone. In order to do so she had to work, so she had to find people to take c...
(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...
Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...
(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...
actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...
no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...
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...
of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...
the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...
Her Peers"). The Women The primary women, as a whole, present us with knowledgeable and observant women who quickly discover w...