Essays 931 - 960
attracts someone she doesnt anticipate -- an considerably older man named Arnold Friend. Vaguely sinister from the beginning, Arno...
In five pages an analysis of this short story by R.K. Narayan is presented. There are 6 sources cited in the bibliography....
In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of setting and character development. There is no bibliography included....
In seven pages this paper examines how the revenge theme is developed in this short story and how whether or not it was Fortunato ...
In five pages the tone and style of these short stories are compared in terms of similarities and differences. There are no other...
and commonplace New England town for the event. It could serve as the model for a Norman Rockwell painting that could be titled "T...
In six pages this paper examines how American culture is reflected in this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Eight sources are ...
can be emphasized that it is the psychological landscape that matters, not the physical one in this use of setting. Porter begin...
two women that reveals a great deal about their lives while simultaneously showing the effect of their fathers tyranny through the...
In four pages this paper analyzes the D.H. Lawrence short story in terms of determining the young doctor's motivations. There are...
In four pages Sartre's short story is examined in terms of how existentialism is contained within. There are no sources listed....
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
this day, of course, will differ from all others. What makes this a significant day in Miss Brills life is that she is about to be...
reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...
human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...
of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...
own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...
lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...
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...
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...
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...