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decision to commit suicide. Others, who dont understand why anyone should have to suffer intolerable pain when theyre going to die...

Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...

who despises her life and dreams of wealth and social status. When she is finally invited to an elegant reception, she complains ...

era has wielded its impact on the mother and her young daughter who moves through the one temporary home after another, for the mo...

paper and open a vein. The point is that non-writers dont understand how difficult writing is; writers do, and frequently wish th...

for an hour, thinking about her past, her relationship, and her future. As she ponders she begins to really experience a sense of ...

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...

Saigon; its the real-life slog of the guys out in the field, the ones who took the chance of dying every time they went on patrol....

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...

basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...

the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...

that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

This paper analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The author argues that the work qualifies as an excell...

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...

see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...

1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...

she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...

circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...

much of a respected figure. One author, in noting this states that his "playboy image impeded the proper assessment of his work" (...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

takes on the persona of Samantha, and Samantha eagerly takes on the persona of Amanda because they seem to be the same. There ar...

by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...

It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...