Essays 181 - 210
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...
"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...
5 pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel, and relates the importance of...
blue hotel against the "dazzling winter landscape of Nebraska," so that the comparison of the two makes Nebraska appear to be a "g...
In fifteen pages women's roles are contrasted as they relate to the Hemingway short stories 'A Canary for One,' 'Che Ti Dice La Pa...
shows his endeavor in following a specific element of style that was all his own. Mood: for example in "The Fall of...
In five pages this paper analyzes This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen in a consideration of moral complacency in the short ...
gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...
The ways in which rounded characters are constructed within short stories are considered in a six page examination of Guy de Maupa...
In seven pages this paper discusses parent and child conflicts and how they are portrayed in 'The Sky is Gray' by Ernest Gaines, '...
In five pages the cultural attitudes reflected in John McMurtry's 'Kill'em, Crush ‘em, Eat ‘em Raw' and Roland Barthes...
constantly to the topic of the beautiful heifer that Uwe has purchased as a present for his bride. The cow cannot be separated fro...
until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...
cigarette dangling out of the corner of his mouth, and a tie that had been loosened to hang limply against his shirt stood in fron...
This paper analyzes Christian's short story collection, Rain on a Tin Roof. The author focuses on details of Christian's coming o...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
what they had just read (TeacherFocus.com). If they had not been shocked they would likely not have done this, and they were proba...
not strain her mental state. She must not write in her journal, she must not be in a room she finds more pleasant than the one cho...
room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...
In 8 pages the Social Darwinism and naturalism that are featured in the Jack London short stories 'The Whale Tooth,' 'The One Thou...
In five pages this paper examines the presentation of the theme of guilt in a consideration of the short stories 'My Kinsman, Majo...
This paper addresses Gaines' story as the events that unfold develop the character of the protagonist, James. This seven page pap...
In six pages this paper presents a feminist critical analysis of this famous 19th century short story. Two sources are cited in t...
driver, and at last he made it to the front in Europe during the height of World War I (Roth, 450). He was seriously wounded in It...
This paper consists of 5 pages and discusses the film's inability to transfer Cheever's internal monologue visually on the big scr...
In seven pages this paper examines how the theme of death is handled in London's short stories 'The Law of Life' and 'To Build a F...
agendas with propaganda and information misrepresentation reportedly in the name of national security. In this story, the governm...
letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...
comes to bail him out is tied to a tree in the jails courtyard and tortured; finally the ordeal ends when Mr. Chiu signs a false c...