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does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, 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 ...

and indeed she is the most likeable person in the story, because she is the one who solves the mystery and suggests its resolution...

to do with self-preservation. We know that the house stands next to their playground, and that it is the only structure left stan...

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

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...

is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...

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...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

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

The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...

way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

her husbands life seems threatened Nora does the right thing by forging her fathers name and getting money to assist her husband. ...

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...

even though her sister will not appreciate them in a real way as Maggie will. Maggie is one of those people who is easily used and...

first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...

felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

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...

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

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

it was: "Well be fine afterward. Just like we were before" (Hemingway NA). She wants to know how he is so sure and he replies that...

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

to justify the decision we make that we are uncomfortable with. This is also seen with the consideration of walking up to the elep...