YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Short Story by Ford
Essays 511 - 540
formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him" (An Occurrence...). The third person point of view is d...
of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...
reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...
attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...
happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...
distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...
the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...
turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...
inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...
Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...
is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...
no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...
may have gone on behind the scenes with the authors own relationships with the opposite gender. THE SYMBOLISM This Hemingway vig...
official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...
of the boys life are not filled in , the reader is left to surmise the basic facts from what he says. For example, the boy mention...
equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...
about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...
In seven pages Poe's works are analyzed within the context of his short stories 'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House o...
extensively from both the perspective of the unsighted as one who fails to see the beauty of the world around him to the sightless...
The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...
In a paper consisting of five pages this short story is considered in terms of its message, style, symbolism, and power struggle c...
at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...
appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...
In six pages these two short stories are compared and contrasted in terms of girls' roles in each tale. There are no other sources...
terms, the trancendentalist is occupied with the natural over the synthetic. He uses vivid images in his explanation of what natu...
In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...
In six pages this paper discusses the symbolism of the cask that appears throughout Edgar Allan Poe's compelling short story. Eig...
and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...