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An Analysis of Fitzgerald's Short Story, Babylon Revisited

This paper examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, Babylon Revisited and addresses the themes of characterization and addiction. Th...

Short Stories That Are Both Different and Alike

In a paper consisting of 5 pages two short stories featured in an instructional text on writing are contrasted and compared. Ther...

Seeing Themselves and Others in Stories 'Miss Brill' and 'Young Goodman Brown'

In 5 pages the employment of symbolism in these 2 stories are discussed in terms of how the respective characters evaluate themsel...

Two Short Stories on the Family

Raymond Carver's A Small Good Thing and John Updike's Separating both deal with the family. This paper examines the two short stor...

Love Story The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper argues that a love story is what The Scarlet Letter is first and foremost. There are no other sources ci...

The African-American Experience in the Short Story - James Baldwin and Langston Hughes Compared

This research report compares and contrasts the works of these two black authors. Short stories are discussed which look at how th...

Story Synopsis of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

In three pages a synopsis of this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe is presented. There are no other sources cited....

Women Short Story Writers

In five pages four feminist short stories by Alice Munro, Susan Minot, Grace Pale, and Nadine Gordimer are thematically compared ...

Short Stories of Richard Wright

In five pages this paper discusses how social realities are depicted in the themes and characters of Richard Wright's short storie...

Treating Women and Men Differently in the Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Hills Like White Elephants, Up in Michigan and A Canary for One represents the inherent dichotomy that exists between conventional...

Richard Wright and 4 Short Stories

In seven pages the assessments of 3 critics are applied to the Richard Wright short stories 'The Man Who Lived Underground,' 'Long...

Ende's The Neverending Story and Beagle's The Last Unicorn Examined as Moral Fables

This research report looks at these two works in depth. They are examined as moral fables. This seven page paper has six sources...

The Signalman as a Ghost Story

the story may have reflected a time in Dickens life where the writer was significantly more in tuned to the transient aspects of w...

Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories, Sociology, and Religion

In 5 pages this paper argues that analyzing the short stories of Flannery O'Connor from sociological as well as Catholic religious...

Original Adventure Story 'Sun Solders'

and others call him "Prairie Dog." Why would someone call a squirrel a dog? Maybe they...

Short Story Mimetics and Verisimilitude

By the time we reach mid story, and the speech of Stella-Rondo, we have suspended disbelief, as we might in good theater, and bel...

Fitzgerald's Short Story, The Rich Boy

This paper analyzes Fitzgerald's short story, The Rich Boy in terms of the protagonist's behavior and refusal to grow up. This si...

Survival Stories of Jack London

In five pages this paper discusses how Jack London successfully applied the Social Darwinism concept of 'survival of the fittest' ...

Alicia My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman

themselves. Buczacz fell under Russian occupation. A few weeks after the Soviet/German treaty was signed, the Russian army entered...

Stories of Persons of Color Souls Looking Back

In five pages this paper examines American society and what it means to grow up as a person of color. There is 1 source cited in ...

Leadership Stories in Howard Gardner's Leading Minds

In ten pages this report discusses the leadership concepts featured in Howard Gardner's text with additional insights from Christo...

Kate Chopin's Short Story 'The Storm' and Theme of Sexuality

In five pages this paper discusses how in this short story Kate Chopin depicts sexuality as a force of nature rather than as a pas...

Comparison of a Trio of Short Stories by Flannery O'Connor

In seven pages this research paper features a comparison of the short stories 'Good Country People,' 'A Good Man is Hard to Find,'...

Changes in Cinderella Stories

In five pages changes in versions of the classic Cinderella story due to a particular culture and time period are discussed. Four...

3 Canterbury Tales and their Story Morals

In 6 pages this paper analyzes the morals in the selections 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' 'The Nun's Priest's Tale,' and 'The Miller'...

Setting Impact of David Michael Kaplan's Short Story 'Doe Season'

In five pages this paper assesses the impact of the winter woods' setting on 'Doe Season,' a 1985 short story by David Michael Kap...

Chang-rae Lee/A Gesture Life

adopted Korean daughter of mixed racial heritage. Hata also was originally Korean, but was adopted by a Japanese family. Through f...

Winesberg, Ohio Stories of Sherwood Anderson and Common Themes

In 6 pages two stories from Anderson's collection are compared in terms of their common theme. There are 3 bibliographic sources ...

Buero Vallejo: “Story of a Stairway”

active service with the Republicans, though not as a soldier but as a medical corpsman (Donahue). Although such a position was a "...

Family in Short Stories

Gregory talks about how his mother got angry when he threw out a free coat and Williams speaks of how his parents loved the kids, ...