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Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

especially in inner city conditions, is a culture that relies heavily on community. Like other cultures, and unlike the majority o...

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...

in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...

no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...

becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...

great pain, screaming, the arrogance of the doctor comes out in the following: "But her screams are not important. I dont hear the...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

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

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...

unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

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 ...

just like you say. Only when you dont have no dinner, it aint" (Steinbeck). He never says he would love some food or a meal or any...

her that he likes arguing for it makes the time go faster, but then he berates her for who she is and how she is attempting to mak...

against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

to pay her for her sexual favors. They are, however, friends it seems. He tells her, "Stephanie, its very simple. I have a lot of ...

hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...

desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....

and possibly to establish a comfort level with something frightening, the townsfolk begin to contrast the angel with other area at...

we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...