Essays 331 - 360
A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...
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...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
a story about Jimmy who runs the store near Two Bridges, or the one about Billy Frank and the dead-river pig, but Napiao assures t...
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...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...
the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
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...
52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...
In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...
In ten pages this research paper compares Crane's short story to the author's own actual experience following the Commodore sinkin...
In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...
In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...
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...