Essays 451 - 480
reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...
This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...
was I really going to be able to make it here for six months? I felt bad thinking this way - this was my parents home once, after ...
life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in followin...
Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...
This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...
This essay pertains to the literary features of this short story, focusing on its plot and symbols as the writer describes how the...
This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...
This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Dry September." The writer offers analysis of the plot and argues that Faulkner use...
This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...
This essay is on Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer discusses the plot charter, metaphor and symbolism used by...
This essay discusses the themes, symbolism and context of the conflict between the genders that defines this Hemingway short story...
This essay pertain to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." The writer discusses plot, metaphor, s...
History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...
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...
flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
major role in shaping our behavior, temperament, and intelligence" (PBS). While nature plays important roles in ones life, the env...
"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...
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...
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...
long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...
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 ...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...