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In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...

Dr. Wayland, was late "and there were no recent newsmagazines in the waiting room" (392), he decided to make what he considered to...

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...

to indicate how these experiences had changed his internal landscape, and changed a vibrant young man into someone who is both pas...

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...

those of other races entirely. Nor do these forms truly explain why anybody needs to know this stuff in the first place. And there...

unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...

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...

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 ...

carried on into adult years. Adolescence is considered one of the most crucial periods of socialization because of the very press...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

mention this to any of the townspeople, as she does not want the past "brought up against" her (Lawrence 128). Frank agrees and hi...

as they would hike their skirts up to their waist and essentially show more skin than most white women did in a bedroom. While cal...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

ended as they could have logically ended. So, too, it must be stated that this spelling out of the ending of the mysteries is a ...

and repelled by." This writer disagrees concerning the assumption that there was a "blurring" of sex roles during this period. Hem...

who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...

as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...

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

than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...

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

such a position where this is his best hope. His entire family seems thrilled that he can have such a good job with good pay, neve...

End of Something," "Cat in the Rain," and "The Big Two-Hearted River (Parts I and II)." First well describe the stories, than anal...

domestic tendencies in their society. In "The Lottery" there are many characters and in "After You, My Dear Alphonse" there are ...