YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Short Story by Ford
Essays 901 - 930
symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...
memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...
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 is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...
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...
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...
first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...
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...
It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...
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...
criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...
unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...
like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...
fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...
ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...