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

The grandmother thinks she has the answers and is saved, religiously or otherwise, but yet she perhaps seems to realize that this ...

on charming it much as he believes he has charmed most of the towns women, and confining Delia to the home for years is comparable...

men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...

(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

is mystical and unexplainable, in the house. They understand that they cannot necessarily see what is taking place, or truly put t...

a mother to do that. As Granny closes her eyes for "just a minute," Porter us an indication of how her life has been lived. She ha...

journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

In seven pages this paper examines knowledge, time, and truth in this thematic analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's stories 'The Balloon ...

of twenty she had received a proposal, which she had promptly declined, and at the age of fifty she had not yet lived to regret it...

the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...

In a paper consisting of five pages the argument is presented that within the short stories 'The Darling, 'The Betrothed,' and 'Th...

Tony Hillerman's collection of stories are discussed in an analysis of historical detail with 'The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo' b...

The writer analyzes the short story Chac-Mool by Carlos Fuentes, and argues that it is representative of his style. The paper is f...

In five pages this essay analyzes the short story in order to determine that it is an example of feminist literature. Three sourc...

Joyce Carol Oates intertwines the element of tragedy in The Crying Baby, The Passion of Rydcie Mather and Where areYou Going? Whe...

In ten pages 5 short stories from the collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes are analyzed in terms of the literary techniques emplo...

from Londons story which illustrates how the man is ignorant and in need of the weather to make him strong and enlightened: "But a...

life must endure social intolerance at one time or another; however, certain groups face prejudicial persecution on a regular basi...