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Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff

trouble getting through the fences. Frank and Kenny could have helped him; they could have lifted up on the top wire and stepped o...

Irony in Shirley Jackson’s Short Story, ‘The Lottery’

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

John Updike/Sammy quitting in "A & P"

"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...

Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall'

In five pages this paper analyzes the narrator's mind in this short story by Virginia Woolf. One source is cited in the bibliogra...

Comparative Analysis of Guy de Maupassant's 'The Necklace' and Kate Chopin's 'Story of an Hour'

These short stories are contrasted and compared in six pages with characters, themes, and endings analyzed. Six sources are cited...

Analyzing 'Sun and Moon by Katherine Mansfield

is assumed that the narrator is offering a truthful representation, but the readers are expected to often "read between the lines"...

Short Stories of Stephen King

In ten pages 5 short stories from the collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes are analyzed in terms of the literary techniques emplo...

Character of Bill Miller in 'Neighbors' by Raymond Carver

In five pages this undestated bookkeeper character is analyzed in terms of his importance to Carver's short story. Five sources a...

A Review of I Am Rene Espronceda de la Barca

A 5 page review of the short story that was included in the book And We Sold the Rain.The three mysteries presented by the author ...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Use of Setting

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant: Short Story Analysis

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...

Cheever's "The Country Husband"

every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...

'A White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett

In six pages this paper analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's short story in terms of female identity and youthful sexuality. Four sources...

Catherine Mansfield/Miss Brill's Fur

she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...

Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

has ultimately nothing to do with emotions. Although Mel is obviously a learned man, and a doctor and perhaps arrogant to some ext...

Character Analysis: Lyman in "The Red Convertible"

car deliberately so that Henry would work on it, and thus be restored to his old self. This doesnt seem to match up with the idea ...

Charles Wright's Short Story 'A New Day'

such a position where this is his best hope. His entire family seems thrilled that he can have such a good job with good pay, neve...

Settings and Symbolic Meaning in Stephen Crane's 'The Blue Hotel,' O. Henry's 'After 20 Years,' and Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'

to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...

Comparative Analysis of 2 Critical Views of William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'

of her father and her eventual release from her house, little is known of the first thirty years of her life in addition to the li...

Joyce Carol Oates' Short Story 'Shopping'

than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...

Analyzing 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin

the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...

'Mr. and Mrs. Elliot' by Ernest Hemingway

to have a baby. They tried as often as Mrs. Elliot could stand it. They tried in Boston after they were married and they tried c...

Edith Wharton's 'His Father's Son' and Point of View

third person (not a character in the story)" (Peterson elements.html). From this basic understanding of the element of point of...

D.H. Lawrence's 'Horse Dealer's Daughter' and the Character of Mabel

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...

Julio Cortazar's Deshoras

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson and Symbolism

small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...

'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' by Ernest Hemingway and the Depiction of the Husband

he tells her that he never loved her when she asks: Dont you love me?" to which he replies "No...I dont think so. I never have" (H...

'Man in the Black Suit' by Stephen King

In five pages this paper analyzes Stephen King's short story in terms of how the author employs the setting of rural Maine. There...

Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and Symbolic Imagery

In seven pages this short story is analyzed in terms of the author's use of symbolic images. There are two other sources cited in...

Washington Irving's 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle' Analyzed

The narrator's reliability in each of these short stories is analyzed in a paper that consists of five pages. There are no other ...