Essays 91 - 120
When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...
the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...
In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...
In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...
A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...
word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...
In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
is, the Victorian era, it becomes clear that Louise Mallard is a normal woman who loves her husband and will grieve for him, but w...
1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...
she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...
In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...
This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
This essay pertains to "How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)" by Junot Diaz. Referring to a description if...
young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...
what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...
official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
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...
This essay pertains to The short stories "Bible" by Tobias Wolfe and "Virgins" by Danielle Evans. The writer discusses the theme o...
This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...
This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...
In five pages this essay presents the argument that Nathaniel Hawthorne uses this short story to reflect his New England Puritanis...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...