Essays 271 - 300
above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...
a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...
by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...
he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
home for everyone, as everyone has a mother. Even people who do not know who their mothers are perhaps have a gut feeling about he...
of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...
A 9 page essay exploring St. Paddy's at the Sundown Bar and Grill, a short story that illuminates the differences in love and sex ...
a narrative technique that makes skillful use of breaks in linear chronology. His character development is powerful and compelling...
a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...
dress so loud it hurt my eyes...yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Everyday...Walker). As this sugge...
his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...
In five pages this essay presents the argument that Nathaniel Hawthorne uses this short story to reflect his New England Puritanis...
Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...
narratives opening reveals. Hesiod pictures the "Void or Chaos" as primordial environment, then comes Earth (Gaia) and then Ero...
substantiates this position by indicating that the origins of Job can be found in folk poetry, but also believes that the beauty o...
In five pages this essay analyzes James Joyce's short story and the meaning of 'dead' within the characterization of Gabriel. The...
every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...
with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...
that her mother "had never really had a friend of her own before" and it is clear that the friendship means a great deal to both w...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
his victories against large predators to his faith in God. Scholarship points out that many features of this narrative relate to...
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...
all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...
understanding of the lottery is the same as her neighbors. She complacently believes that it will never touch her family. This goe...
their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...
three oclock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?" (Hemingway). His colleague says "He stays up because he likes it" (Hemingwa...
postman, then the stores and trades people, then the neighbors (Bellow, 2002). "But youll find the closer you come to your man, th...
Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...
young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...