Essays 151 - 180
who suffered a serious ax wound and is lying on the top bunk, above his laboring wife. When he heard this comment he "rolled over ...
tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...
every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...
with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...
understanding of the lottery is the same as her neighbors. She complacently believes that it will never touch her family. This goe...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...
young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...
what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...
This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...
This essay pertains to the literary features of this short story, focusing on its plot and symbols as the writer describes how the...
This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...
This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...
This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Dry September." The writer offers analysis of the plot and argues that Faulkner use...
This paper compare these James Joyce and John Updike short stories in an analytical essay consisting of five apges. There are no ...
In six pages this essay presents a modernist interpretation of this short story by Katherine Mansfield. Three sources are cited i...
In two pages this essay compares these short stories in terms of symbolism, theme, and imagery. There are no other sources listed...
This is a book review consisting of 5 pages that considers the collective work of short stories and essays and how the works stead...
In five pages this essay analyzes James Joyce's short story and the meaning of 'dead' within the characterization of Gabriel. The...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
An essay of 5 pages that considers the worldview of Christian writer James W. Sire. After defining the worldviews of Existentiali...
constantly to the topic of the beautiful heifer that Uwe has purchased as a present for his bride. The cow cannot be separated fro...
This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...
This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...
This essay pertains to The short stories "Bible" by Tobias Wolfe and "Virgins" by Danielle Evans. The writer discusses the theme o...
Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...
This essay pertains to "How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)" by Junot Diaz. Referring to a description if...
A 9 page essay exploring St. Paddy's at the Sundown Bar and Grill, a short story that illuminates the differences in love and sex ...