Essays 571 - 600
a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...
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...
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...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the protagonist planned to die with dignity in Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 short story. There...
This paper addresses Faulkner's various literary techniques, such as setting, theme, and characterization, in his short story, Bar...
structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...
In five pages this paper discusses Hemingway's life and then examines how heroes are interpreted in the novel The Sun Also Rises a...
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...
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 ...
In five pages this report analyzes 'My Father's Life,' a short story by Raymond Carver. Two sources are cited in the bibliography...
many years, that she hardly heard them at all" (Lawrence). In these references it is quite clear that Mabel is essentially...
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...
long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...
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...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
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 ...
meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...
In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares how evil is thematically depicted in these short stories. There are 2 sources cited ...
In three pages this paper discusses the wide ranging symbolism associated with 'The Birthmark' in the short story by Nathaniel Haw...
1). Author, F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that Hemingway will be remembered for his great studies in fear. If you look at s...
when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...
he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...
Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...
The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...
In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...
In three pages Raymond Carver's last short story is analyzed in terms of culture and setting. There are no other sources cited....
In seven pages the indifference represented by this famous short story by Stephen Crane is critiqued. Four sources are cited in t...
In a paper consisting of 8 pages the symbolism of blindness in this short story by Raymond Carver is discussed in terms of insight...
This paper consists of ten pages and discusses the symbolic importance of stairs in Flannery O'Connor's short stories 'The Geraniu...