Essays 961 - 990
may have gone on behind the scenes with the authors own relationships with the opposite gender. THE SYMBOLISM This Hemingway vig...
equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...
Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...
is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...
no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...
definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...
like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...
unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...
fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...
to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...
criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...
felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...
two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...
says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...
are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized per...
machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...
of judgments find themselves in usually violent altercations that force judgment to be passed on them. She admitted, "In my own s...
Hutchinson never protests the against the injustice of human sacrifice, but rather that the selection her family was not fair. A....
bus she and Julian are taking downtown to the Y, his mother plays with the child (OConnor). She doesnt see that the childs mother ...
that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...
end of the story, because the man whose son was killed appears to be handling it well. He notes that life is difficult, and that w...
This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...
took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...