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attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

In eight pages these three short stories are considered in terms of summary and analysis of themes. Ten sources are cited in the ...

close, as truly intimate with his wife as he is with this group of friends. Nick does not run away from his responsibility, but th...

of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...

equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...

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...

Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...

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...

live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

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...

in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...

two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...

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...

story is that Chopin also begins to set up the ending. The reader sees the Aubigny estate, LAbri, through the eyes of Madame Valmo...

Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...

she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...