Essays 541 - 570
the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...
even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...
It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...
it was: "Well be fine afterward. Just like we were before" (Hemingway NA). She wants to know how he is so sure and he replies that...
Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...
she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...
ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...
I left it on the hall table for you. It had a map from Christine. Where is it? Ill check." "No. I thought you had it. There was n...
symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...
However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...
that were written prior to 1980 will be compared with three from the later time period. Elizabeth Janeway published a critique o...
like Poes "The Casks of Amontillado," Joyces "The Dead" contains many "Gothic themes and motifs" (1). For one thing, the time of t...
Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...
even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...
small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...
In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...
to have a baby. They tried as often as Mrs. Elliot could stand it. They tried in Boston after they were married and they tried c...
third person (not a character in the story)" (Peterson elements.html). From this basic understanding of the element of point of...
Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...
deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...
back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...
he tells her that he never loved her when she asks: Dont you love me?" to which he replies "No...I dont think so. I never have" (H...
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...
everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...
Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...
house, the meals, and my life. Fiona never seemed to bother too much with my brothers but she seemed to take a particular interes...
to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...
Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...
positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...
dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...