Essays 991 - 1020
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...
fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
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...
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...
Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...
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 ...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
takes on the persona of Samantha, and Samantha eagerly takes on the persona of Amanda because they seem to be the same. There ar...
she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...
for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...
country seems to be in a perpetual state of war with its neighbors, and on the fact that this eternal war has become the norm. Th...
trouble getting through the fences. Frank and Kenny could have helped him; they could have lifted up on the top wire and stepped o...
by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...
was much different.) There are other aspects to the mum that remind us of Kin. First, a flower of any kind is beautiful, but pra...
testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...