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two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...

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

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

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

In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...

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

for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

The short story is Sister Flowers. This essay describes highlights in the story. There is one souorce listed in the bibliography o...

still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...

it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...