Essays 2611 - 2640
Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...
she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...
The widow character in Greenleaf is the Christian icon of the story, while the questionable neighbors represent all that is pernic...
between Psyche and her other two sisters was that Psyche was appreciably more beautiful than they. By all accounts, the sisters we...
even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...
the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...
"General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales, is one of only two pilgrims who tells no story of his own (Conlee 36). While critic J...
and the creation of tension tailor-made for this particular short story, Dickens effectively conjures up intense imagery that serv...
deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...
by curiosity, I wanted something better" (Chekhov). However, the better life that she imagined did not materialize with her marria...
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...
relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...
could have begotten a son like Nwoye, degenerate and effeminate(Achebe 143). In fact, the barbaric way in which the women are bea...
Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...
story of a young girl who lives in Dublin with her father and her brother. But living there has become like living in a prison, a...
are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...
that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...
North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free. An...
of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...
independence of British rule and the postcolonial and postimperial themes of independence are consistent through "The River Betwee...
Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...
insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...
well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...
are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...
she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...
to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...
be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...
living in a small Kansas town (Not Without Laughter). Its a sad story and tells of his rather slow and sad awakening to the reali...
from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...