Essays 391 - 420
who suffered a serious ax wound and is lying on the top bunk, above his laboring wife. When he heard this comment he "rolled over ...
Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...
day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...
camps, and symbolic of the true need to survive, something not really seen in the mother or the infant who all but seem to accept ...
"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...
many years, that she hardly heard them at all" (Lawrence). In these references it is quite clear that Mabel is essentially...
man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...
flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...
History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...
she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...
the Russian culture has long remained something of a mystery as well. Even despite the seemingly mysterious nature of Russian l...
possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...
opens the story by saying that he has heard that when people go through some sort of strange or supernatural experience, they usua...
as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...
an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
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...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...
the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...
features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...
him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...