YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Short Story by Ford
Essays 91 - 120
age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...
by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...
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...
her youth she experienced the suicide of a friend in the woods while camping. The body was never found and this woman, Lois, was n...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
but GM is the largest (Bryant, 2007). * Restructuring efforts: Ford sold Hertz Rent-a-car company. GM owns Direct TV as well as th...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
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...
conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...
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 ...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...
went to Yale to get his law degree he would coach football, and while many lawyers managed to find a way to stay out of war, Ford ...
mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...
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...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...
the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...
pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...
corporation. They have been charged with racial discrimination, gender discrimination, age discrimination, racial harassment, sexu...
or No Immediate Miracles This is an understandable error when using process communication. Process communication gives the publi...
The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...
be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...
it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...
"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...
The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...
be the natural order of things, with themselves and those like them, of course, were divinely placed atop this orderly universe, g...
our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...