Essays 1891 - 1920
could "be a devilish Indian behind every tree" or that the devil may even be in the woods (Hawthorne). As one can see, the nature ...
hands of male heads of families and households. Women are disenfranchised" (Kosenko 27). It is the men who are essentially in cha...
to pay her for her sexual favors. They are, however, friends it seems. He tells her, "Stephanie, its very simple. I have a lot of ...
her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...
the costs are accounted for the method will not provide what can be seen as an accurate or fair costing per item or centre, and as...
which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...
mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...
by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...
Electra, another daughter, lives on with her mother, but despises her for her awful deed. Orestes returns and is goaded by Electra...
took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...
that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...
play, the power in this contest lies with Waverly. But her mother is jealous of the girls success (not an unusual reaction), and ...
clothed. Later, the family takes a detour onto a country road in order for the grandmother to show them a "old plantation" that sh...
he recognizes this. They are a challenge and women have always been drawn to him. But, with this one woman he begins to become far...
and inwardly becomes free, realizing that what they have done is not wrong, but natural, and that she is truly, in her heart and s...
are the American couple and they are simply trying to get in an adventure before Mark dies. They have always wanted to see Ireland...
to. He also carried a strobe light to illuminate their oftentimes-dark path, and he also carried "the responsibility for his men"...
But Ichabod has a problem, in the form of "Brom Bones," the nickname the locals have given to Abraham ("Brom" Van Brunt, a strong ...
and hides and works for a man who never questions him, and he is torn terribly with his emotions because he wants to run and yet h...
this point, the determined Mrs. Mooney obtains a separation from her husband, gains control of her remaining inheritance, custody ...
of passion in their lives, this somber existence. The mood is also set by the tone as it develops along with the plot. In Lawrence...
Like White Elephants" we have a man and a woman, although the characters are an American Man and a Girl, wherein the man is seemi...
her training in society was different, for her focus was on religion and the proper way things should be done. While the mother in...
as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...
with a back-pack blower." This 30 year old man had throughout the day complained to his partner that he was not feeling well; at ...
a founding principle of America--but she doesnt receive it. In "The Third and Final Continent," a young Indian man moves first to...
abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for wa...
a chicken farm. Of his life there and the annoying chickens he writes:" It is born out of an egg, lives for a few weeks as a tiny...