Essays 121 - 150
This essay is on Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer discusses the plot charter, metaphor and symbolism used by...
This essay discusses the themes, symbolism and context of the conflict between the genders that defines this Hemingway short story...
This essay pertain to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." The writer discusses plot, metaphor, s...
This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...
This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...
his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...
This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...
actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...
story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...
real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...
he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...
memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...
gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...
the city contrasts with his depiction of the boys at play, trying gamely to be frolicsome and experience the joy of childhood agai...
understanding of the lottery is the same as her neighbors. She complacently believes that it will never touch her family. This goe...
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...
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...
about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...
this point, the determined Mrs. Mooney obtains a separation from her husband, gains control of her remaining inheritance, custody ...
is true of the character Joy/Hulga in "Good Country People." Joy/Hulga has a heart condition, which prevents her from living the...
a chicken farm. Of his life there and the annoying chickens he writes:" It is born out of an egg, lives for a few weeks as a tiny...
which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...
according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...