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The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...

story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana" (Chopin 148). Chopin also establishes that he was born in France and that his mother ...

it out, a four hour task, earlier that day and the relief it brought had been so immense he had treated himself to a slice of rye ...

always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...

through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...

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...

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...

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...

conversation between the bartenders as they speak of how he had tried to commit suicide. The older bartender indicates that it mus...

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

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...

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

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

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

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...

In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...

In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...

In five pages the short stories 'The Catbird Seat' and 'The Unicorn in the Garden' by James Thurber and 'Hihlls Like White Elephan...

quality, and that is indeed the way she first appears. However we will soon see that she has many qualities, which add to her str...

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

In five pages this paper examines how social and religious values collide in a contrast and comparison of the short stories 'The S...