Essays 361 - 390
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...
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...
The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...
52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...
one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...
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...
through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...
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 ...
in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...
In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...
the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...
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...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...
quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...
In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...
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...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...
"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...
waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...
The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...
century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...