Essays 211 - 240
who despises her life and dreams of wealth and social status. When she is finally invited to an elegant reception, she complains ...
In five pages this paper examines the themes featured in William Faulkner's short stories 'Dry September,' 'The Bear,' and 'A Rose...
in Gilbs narrative is that Jake really doesnt know how to be anything other then deceptive and manipulative, the small-time con ar...
were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...
life must endure social intolerance at one time or another; however, certain groups face prejudicial persecution on a regular basi...
from Londons story which illustrates how the man is ignorant and in need of the weather to make him strong and enlightened: "But a...
era has wielded its impact on the mother and her young daughter who moves through the one temporary home after another, for the mo...
anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...
this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...
a lady....
careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...
on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...
(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...
men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...
this only comes in the form of regret at the end. In fact, if anyone were to be bitter about things, it would have to be the gra...
even Hemingway himself consciously does not, that "blowing things heads off" is not the way to prove a mans masculinity. "What imp...
In five pages Steinbeck's 'The Chrysanthemums' is compared with Cheever's 'Country Husband' in an argument that each are about aba...
In eight pages this paper discusses how Southern life, history and geography are depicted in the short stories 'A Rose for Emily,'...
of her life. One of the children asks her whats wrong: " I aint nothing but a nigger, Nancy said. It aint none of my fault " ("Tha...
quotes Gertrude Stein as calling Hemingways set "the lost generation" (Roth, 450). Although only a few of his stories and novels a...
In nine pages this paper examines how the life of Ernest Hemingway particularly his wartime experiences are reflected in his short...
Tony Hillerman's collection of stories are discussed in an analysis of historical detail with 'The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo' b...
the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...
In a paper consisting of five pages the argument is presented that within the short stories 'The Darling, 'The Betrothed,' and 'Th...
A review of short stories which originated in various regions of Africa. This paper has five pages and one source in the bibliog...
of twenty she had received a proposal, which she had promptly declined, and at the age of fifty she had not yet lived to regret it...
having their baby. His act was accomplished so quietly, no one knew it had happened despite the fact he was lying on the bunk abov...
In five pages a contrast and comparison of O'Connor's short stories 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' and 'Good Country People...
In five pages this paper examines how the conflict between appearances and reality is depicted in the short stories 'The Minister'...
blue hotel against the "dazzling winter landscape of Nebraska," so that the comparison of the two makes Nebraska appear to be a "g...