Essays 271 - 300
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
It is clear in this story that the greed of the Washingtons is out-of-control. Mr. Washington doesnt want anyone to find out abou...
the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...
son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...
living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...
the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...
that many writers have used familiar themes and offered a new way of seeing the traditional elements of plot and character; howeve...
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 ...
of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...
machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...
Norma Jeans development toward individuation throughout the story by relating her relationship to her mother, Mabel, who is omnipr...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...
how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...
no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...
substantiates this position by indicating that the origins of Job can be found in folk poetry, but also believes that the beauty o...
happy: "Except that one day Haroun asked one question too many, and then all hell broke loose" (Rusdie, 1990, p. 8). The question ...
are portrayed in this story range from shepherds to artisans, and in this way Hardy stays true to the types of characters that wou...
it that way for ages. Madness is not only contagious; it is bred into the people of the village. The black box, then, represents u...
of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...
is a story about change - the change in a man, people he recognizes and knew his entire life did not recognize this man who Garl...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...
mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...
she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...
1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...
one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...
In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...
that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...
In four pages this paper examines the very different discoveries the reader and the protagonist make as the story unfolds. There ...