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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...

Colonial Peru and the Short Story 'Rosa's Day'

and private places; the divisions which existed between regular days and festive days; the divisions which existed between the vil...

Bharti Mukherjee's Short Story 'A Father'

no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...

3 Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway

great pain, screaming, the arrogance of the doctor comes out in the following: "But her screams are not important. I dont hear the...

Analysis of Symbolism in the Short Story 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...

Four Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

Raymond Carver's Short Stories and Relationships

clearly shows how the concept of love differs between people, regardless of gender. "There was a time when I thought I loved my ...

The Short Stories of Angela Carter

tale: "The stories include The Courtship of Mr. Lyon,] a fairly straightforward interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, which is a...

Comparative Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories 'The Cask of Amontillado' and 'The Black Cat'

rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...

Short Story on Everyday Decisions

not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...

'I Stand Here Ironing' Short Story by Tillie Olsen

BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...

Character Analysis of Nadine in the Short Story 'Water Child'

her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...

Generation Representation in Amy Tan's Short Story 'Two Kinds'

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

William Faulkner's Short Story 'Dry September'

beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...

The Father of the Short Story, Walter Scott

be left with a limp as a reminder of his close call, however. However, because of this illness, he would often be sent to live ...

Herman Melville's Short Stories 'Tartarus of Maids' and 'The Paradise of Bachelors'

the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...

Freudian Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

Short Stories of Mark Twain, Heaven and Hell, Good and Bad

books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...

Short Story Analysis of 'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan

The conflict between mother and daughter and the importance of the last paragraph of the short story are the focus of this paper t...

Individuals have Control Over Fate According to Assorted Short Stories

Man does indeed have control over his destiny according to a plethora or authors. Evidence of this thesis is put forth in such sh...

Elementary Schools and Short Story Writing Instruction

In four pages this paper discusses how teachers should implement short story writing instruction in an elementary school setting. ...

'Master and Man' Short Story by Leo Tolstoy

In five pages this paper discusses how the author's beliefs regarding death and Christianity are expressed in this short story by ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...