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Mrs. Freeman and the Short Story 'Good Country People' by Flannery O'Connor

a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...

Updike’s A&P

day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...

Allegory in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

In five pages the ways in which allegory is used by the author in this short story are discussed. Two sources are cited in the bi...

Granny's Last Days in 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall' by Katherine Anne Porter

In 5 pages this paper examines how the protagonist planned to die with dignity in Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 short story. There...

The Literary Techniques of William Faulkner

This paper addresses Faulkner's various literary techniques, such as setting, theme, and characterization, in his short story, Bar...

Theme of Death and Life Experiences in 'The Cask of Amontillado' and 'Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar Allan Poe

structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...

Biography and Writings of Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this paper discusses Hemingway's life and then examines how heroes are interpreted in the novel The Sun Also Rises a...

Writers and Their Times: John Steinbeck and Susan Glaspell

Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...

Response on a Commentary of The Shawl

camps, and symbolic of the true need to survive, something not really seen in the mother or the infant who all but seem to accept ...

'My Father's Life' by Raymond Carver

In five pages this report analyzes 'My Father's Life,' a short story by Raymond Carver. Two sources are cited in the bibliography...

Love in The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D.H. Lawrence

many years, that she hardly heard them at all" (Lawrence). In these references it is quite clear that Mabel is essentially...

She Unnames Them By Le Guin

man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...

Alifa Rifaat's "Another Evening At The Club"

long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...

Two by Poe: “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”

fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...

Edgar Allan Poe’s Creative Uses of Atmosphere and/or Tension in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Black Cat”

in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...

Children’s Perceptions of Adults

is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...

My Kinsman, Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne

of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...

The Biblical Ruth

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

Evil in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado' and Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares how evil is thematically depicted in these short stories. There are 2 sources cited ...

Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Birthmark'

In three pages this paper discusses the wide ranging symbolism associated with 'The Birthmark' in the short story by Nathaniel Haw...

Ernest Hemingway's 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place'

1). Author, F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that Hemingway will be remembered for his great studies in fear. If you look at s...

Poe and The Tell-Tale Heart, a Reaction

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

The Cask of Amontillado

he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...

Life of Ernest Hemingway Reflected in his Art

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

American Literature as Defined by Edgar Allan Poe

In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...

'Errand' by Raymond Carver

In three pages Raymond Carver's last short story is analyzed in terms of culture and setting. There are no other sources cited....

Critique of 'The Open Boat' by Stephen Crane

In seven pages the indifference represented by this famous short story by Stephen Crane is critiqued. Four sources are cited in t...

Raymond Carver's 'Cathedral' and the Symbolism of Blindness

In a paper consisting of 8 pages the symbolism of blindness in this short story by Raymond Carver is discussed in terms of insight...

Flannery O'Connor's Works and the Symbolism of Stairs

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses the symbolic importance of stairs in Flannery O'Connor's short stories 'The Geraniu...