YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of Two Short Stories from A Bird in the House
Essays 811 - 840
telephone wire holding her to her duty like a leash. The next time she must telephone, or wait to be telephoned, nailed her to her...
has returned home for a visit with his mother and to reintroduce her to his lover, Wayne, who joins him at his childhood home. Nei...
in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...
(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...
or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...
makes it clear that the house is not a privilege, as a necessity. This is because if Remire lived in the camp, the other prisoners...
such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...
very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...
about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...
fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...
with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...
it looks like a Holstein calf, and she is waggin her finger at me and sayin, "Child, you got to grab hold of the things you want i...
restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...
and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...
generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...
appearance, her style, and her young sexuality. She plays with it in a very dangerous manner that she is completely unaware of for...
clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...
is on its way, OConnor emphasizes that the grandmother is totally lacking in any sort of sympathetic or empathetic feeling. The ...
where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...
been. She is flighty. She moved out of the family home early, as soon as she began college, but Maggie is still living at home. Wh...
to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...
In comparison to the many overt forms of change these villagers have been forced to experience over time as a result of colonialis...
Companion of the British Empire and was awarded doctorates from Trinity College, Dublin and Oxford. In 1999, on the 100th annivers...
have to occupy the nursery with the horrid wallpaper" (161). As befits a woman who is practically a nonentity, the narrator in "...
apply and be accepted into the graduate creative writing program at Boston University; eventually getting her Masters in English, ...
sharpness of selfish satisfaction" (217). As this suggests, Dr. Jenkins feelings toward his hoard of art are not completely altrui...
with this great solitude" (73). Kurtz allows all of his most primitive desires to run rampant. The experience of being away from a...
"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...
thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...
of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...