Essays 181 - 210
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...
In three pages this essay examines how women are treated in the symbolic portrayal of Emily as being a rose in this short story by...
In five pages this research essay explores the abortion debate within the context of Hemingway's short story and how important saf...
In five pages this essay considers the 'everything' or 'nothing' connotation of oneness as represented within these short stories ...
In five pages this essay analyzes the development of the protagonist Elisa in a consideration of this John Steinbeck short story. ...
This essay consisting of two pages examines the symbolic representation of flowers within the context of this short story by Kate ...
In six pages this essay considers how this short story by Ernest Hemingway describes 'nothingness' and the despair of loneliness. ...
In six pages this essay discusses the positive characterization of the blind man in the short story 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver....
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 two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...
free; and Joy, whose miserable disposition is anything but joyful. It is Joy who is the chief protagonist, an educated 32-year-ol...
This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...
story "Grit" portrays the intense conflict that arises between Glen, the manager of the Black Beauty Minerals Plant located in Mob...
reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...
Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...
OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...
is actually an "angel of light," as he serves as the "unwilling instrument of grace," by stealing Joy/Hulgas leg and leaving her s...
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...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...
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...
became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...
or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...