YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :3 Short Stories by Poe Analyzed
Essays 211 - 240
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...
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)....
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...
"Big Tall Goony-Goony," but is the third girl with whom he is instantly smitten. She is "Queenie" in Sammys mind and he associates...
In six pages this paper analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's short story in terms of female identity and youthful sexuality. Four sources...
the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...
to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...
In comparison to the many overt forms of change these villagers have been forced to experience over time as a result of colonialis...
that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...
trouble getting through the fences. Frank and Kenny could have helped him; they could have lifted up on the top wire and stepped o...
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 ...
has ultimately nothing to do with emotions. Although Mel is obviously a learned man, and a doctor and perhaps arrogant to some ext...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...
own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...
him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...
his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...
being. But, she is a fighter it seems, represented by the fact that she has many missing teeth due to struggles with the white man...
and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...
clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...
thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...
sharpness of selfish satisfaction" (217). As this suggests, Dr. Jenkins feelings toward his hoard of art are not completely altrui...
clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...
and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...
as "tiny jewels glowing behind the cover," which weave a "tapestry of transformed lives." This point is exemplified by the first s...
there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...