Essays 541 - 570
says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...
joyce.html). His mother, Mary Jane Murray, was "ten years younger than Stanislaus, was an accomplished pianist whose life was domi...
Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...
in men. Her daughter had died in childhood and with her one son she had no articulate relations. On the night when she died she wa...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
extremely cumbersome, requiring several annotations that would make its reading even more difficult. Therefore, she opted instead...
well into adulthood. However, Lorber points out, "Individual actions construct social institutions and therefore... changes in in...
we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...
History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...
each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...
as an "honest man" who kept a "little hut for the entertainment of travelers, serving them with meat and drink" but seldom offerin...
Peruvian interior, complete with "the chattering of monkeys, the cries of exotic birds, the unidentifiable clicks and hisses of th...
She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...
Her Peers"). The Women The primary women, as a whole, present us with knowledgeable and observant women who quickly discover w...
can see that the Hills, which the man remarks are like White Elephants, "refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and ...
her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...
the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...
of his talent. He sees and then conveys meaning in the smallest of details and, again, weaves them together in ways that create th...
his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...
she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...
Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...
prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...
excitement in the place. It is not necessarily a nurturing environment for one who wants something more out of life than to be a b...
story of a young girl who lives in Dublin with her father and her brother. But living there has become like living in a prison, a...
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...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...
In seven pages a biography of Hemingway is included in this short story analysis. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....
In five pages this essay provides a character analysis of Gregor as featured in Kafka's short story. Three sources are cited in t...
In five pages a psychological analysis of John Steinbeck's short story includes the flowers' symbolism and the depression of Elisa...
Secure in the knowledge that his origins are unknown, Max joins a white supremacist group and allies himself with their bigotry. S...