Essays 301 - 330
of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" as something of a metaphor for what is generally referred to as the "war between the...
by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...
This paper analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The author addresses narrative voic...
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 ...
Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...
In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...
In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...
his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...
conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...
our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...
In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....
In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...
quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...
In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...
Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...
the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
This paper explores various elements of the short story, including character and story development. This seven page paper has no ...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...