Essays 121 - 150
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...
understanding of the lottery is the same as her neighbors. She complacently believes that it will never touch her family. This goe...
Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...
there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...
he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...
above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...
a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...
by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...
his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...
he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...
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...
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...
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...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...
In six pages this essay discusses the positive characterization of the blind man in the short story 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver....
In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...
to kill, the speaker insists on frequently and rather adamantly reminding us that he is not mad. As the story reads on, I found m...
In five pages this essay analyzes the development of the protagonist Elisa in a consideration of this John Steinbeck short story. ...
free; and Joy, whose miserable disposition is anything but joyful. It is Joy who is the chief protagonist, an educated 32-year-ol...
In five pages this essay presents the argument that Nathaniel Hawthorne uses this short story to reflect his New England Puritanis...
In five pages this essay examines how Puritanism and witchcraft contribute to the setting of this short story by Nathaniel Hawthor...
In five pages this essay considers whether the events that transpired in this short story were real or were in fact a dream. Ther...