Essays 661 - 690
like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...
ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...
to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...
says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...
felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...
two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...
taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...
all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...
way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...
Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...
white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...
is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...
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...
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...
his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...
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...
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...
real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...
actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...
he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...