Essays 421 - 450
the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...
In a paper consisting of five pages the argument is presented that within the short stories 'The Darling, 'The Betrothed,' and 'Th...
Tony Hillerman's collection of stories are discussed in an analysis of historical detail with 'The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo' b...
mail, or to buy fruit or wine at the stores by the trolley stop" (Interpreter of Maladies - Chapter One: A Temporary Matter). The...
In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of perspective, setting, tone, style, and symbolism. Seven sources are cited ...
of twenty she had received a proposal, which she had promptly declined, and at the age of fifty she had not yet lived to regret it...
In seven pages this paper examines knowledge, time, and truth in this thematic analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's stories 'The Balloon ...
Ini five pages this paper examines the theme of the grotesque that is featured in the Tandy and Hands stories in Winesburg, Ohio. ...
In five pages this paper examines the stories featured throughout 'The Odyssey' in a consideration of the repetition of Agamemnon'...
the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). But beyond this bitterness, ...
still places on the planet where nature is more important than man and his machines, and where nature actually "knows best" and sh...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
on real events, but a fictional work inspired by the nature of the wealthy and powerful and the nature of simple young women lured...
persona, observing early in the narrative, "He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, b...
this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...
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 ...
paper and open a vein. The point is that non-writers dont understand how difficult writing is; writers do, and frequently wish th...
She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...
stars for me, weaponed me to make my way in the world...Did I slay him, what horror would come upon me and mine?" (Anderson 305). ...
true Huck; de ony white genlman dat ever kep his promise to ole Jim" (Twain 119). Twain shows us an America with two faces; a cou...
the pressure and approved wage hikes, however, they quickly evaporated as inflation crept into the warring city. Gordei and his c...
for. There is less time for the couple to enjoy each other, and Ben especially resents the lack of sexual spontaneity. In one fl...
cold hearted person. She was like this because she was afraid to really look at herself. She was also afraid to hope for anything ...
why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...
she is the sort of woman who would love to go to such an event, but could not possibly go to such without looking regal and wealth...
of superstition that he is there to stamp out. He suggests that the villagers build a new path skirting the school grounds; he rem...
(Chopin). This image clearly drives home the fact that the heart was a symbol, a symbol of her confinement and of her hope. The he...
is being raped, the experience evolves into something that is "sensually stimulating, relaxing, and, of course, spiritually illumi...
structure, which basically picture the lower classes as not "as good" as those fortunate enough to be a member of the ruling class...
thinking about making a living. But a predominantly capitalist economy meant that all goods and services, including works of art,...