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This story is discussed in depth and the protagonist is examined. This story contemplates Bebe, the character who threatens her te...

In two pages the author's employment of color and setting in order to emphasize the story's conflicts and represent alienation is ...

in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

pin curlers even looked around after pushing their carts past to make sure what they had seen was correct" (Updike, 1274). The st...

the characters, the entire thing is related as though it were the most normal thing in the world, and this contributes to the stor...

a supposed "cure" for her depressed symptoms, becomes, in fact, the catalyst to -2- her entire mental downfall. She h...

In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

they write: attempting to arrive at some truth about a topic. In Hemingways case, a good argument can be made for his attempt to u...

monstrous Green Knight after having already shown that he is unmarred when his own head is cut off (Norton 218). There is a great ...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...

other nations, acting in commercial or diplomatic positions (The Literature Network). Then in 1385 he apparently lost his job as w...

gone with him there are several ways in which this could have altered the story. The first example will discuss how the story coul...

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...

the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

structure. "First Confession" recounts the events of a brief period in Jackies life. Therefore, Jackies perspective does not alter...

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

read, she immediately attributes these events to the action of Providence. When her captors, which is a band of American Natives m...