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grows a bit fearful. "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully...she felt it, creeping out of the s...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

This essay pertains to "My Kid's Dog," a short story by Ron Hansen. The writer discusses how the story reflects the therapeutic ap...

boy fell from the car platform, and two years prior to that, a youngster lost his life when he slipped while walking the tracks an...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

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

In four pages the short story's conflicts are examined in terms of their character implications. There are no other sources liste...

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

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

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

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

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,...

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....

the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...