Essays 241 - 270
In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....
In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...
Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...
his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...
conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...
pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...
life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...
through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...
it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...
always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...
still hurt, and it didnt help that every time I volunteered at the temple afterwards, I had to see that portrait of him looking ba...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
be the natural order of things, with themselves and those like them, of course, were divinely placed atop this orderly universe, g...
with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...
In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...
In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...
In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...
The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...
story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...
This 6 page paper is an analysis of the short story by Camus called The Guest. This paper gives a summary of the story as well as ...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...