YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of Fitzgeralds Short Story Babylon Revisited
Essays 811 - 840
appearance, her style, and her young sexuality. She plays with it in a very dangerous manner that she is completely unaware of for...
standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...
own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
as "tiny jewels glowing behind the cover," which weave a "tapestry of transformed lives." This point is exemplified by the first s...
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...
Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...
the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...
features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...
sheep-like qualities of the old maids in the store and the unattainable status of the girls he so desires, Sammy is caught between...
In one page this paper examines the short story by John Updike in an identification of its protagonist and antagonist characters. ...
and commonplace New England town for the event. It could serve as the model for a Norman Rockwell painting that could be titled "T...
there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...
he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...
In five pages the tone and style of these short stories are compared in terms of similarities and differences. There are no other...
attracts someone she doesnt anticipate -- an considerably older man named Arnold Friend. Vaguely sinister from the beginning, Arno...
of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...
In one page this paper compares the characters Ivan Ilych from Leo Tolstoy's short story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' and Linda Brent...
In five pages these 2 American short stories are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of setting and character development. There is no bibliography included....
In seven pages this paper examines how the revenge theme is developed in this short story and how whether or not it was Fortunato ...