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tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...

of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...

this day, of course, will differ from all others. What makes this a significant day in Miss Brills life is that she is about to be...

a grandfather is made clear as soon as Robert ushers Mr. Winfield into the car. Wiinfields granddaughter, Sheila, greets him. With...

death(The Death/synopsis). He simply lived his life like most people do: work, family, community. There was nothing else. Or was t...

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...

the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and ther...

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...

it has been going on for so long that nobody remembers why or how it started (Jackson). We also know that this village is not the ...

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...

keep from feeling frightened. The residents are startled, no doubt, and even perhaps afraid, but they dont react appropriately to...

complements that of the utilitarian. The utilitarian focuses on the badness of the victims agony but cannot readily grasp the sign...

(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...

this point, the determined Mrs. Mooney obtains a separation from her husband, gains control of her remaining inheritance, custody ...

of nature and the unveiling of secrets; a theme which is well illustrated in The Use of Force. As Johnson (2004) notes, the narrat...

In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...

In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...

353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...