Essays 841 - 870
taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...
all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...
way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...
Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...
white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...
is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...
criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...
fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...
ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...
to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...
says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...
felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...
two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...
In five pages this essay considers the narrative action and the main theme's implications within the context of the short story. ...
This paper discusses how women are socially perceived and how gender conflict due to miscommunication and misunderstanding are exp...
him and them" (Barna 324). The true source of the authors inner torment was never revealed, but there was little doubt that "evil...
In five pages this short story by Raymond Carver is examined in an analysis of the blind character Robert and what he symbolizes. ...
all, it appears that the author addresses social stratification by putting the protagonist in this particular setting. What the p...
Poe and his short story are considered in a paper consisting of five pages. There is one other source cited in the bibliography....
to try heroin in the first place. To him it must equate with a death wish. The irrationality of Sonnys habit is quite evident at t...
OConnors most controversial and problematic short stories (Clark 66). There are really only two characters in this story-the grand...
In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...
was a message for his people, and for the reader as well. What did the black veil symbolize? The story ends as follows: " The gras...
In six pages this paper examines how intent and meaning are enhanced by literary symbolism and settings in Eudora Welty's short st...