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First Encounter With Death in Joyce's The Sisters

The focus of this three page paper is a young boy's first experience with death as it unfolds in the short story in James Joyce's ...

Goodman Brown 'Dark Side'

In five pages this paper discusses how human nature's dark side is portrayed by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his short story 'Young Good...

Literary Analysis of 'Miss Brill' by Katherine Mansfield

In 3 pages theme, tone, and symbolism are analyzed within the context of Katherine Mansfield's short story 'Miss Brill.' There ar...

James Joyce's The Dead and Themes of Memory, Politics, and Death

In five pages Joyce's short story is examined within the context of these 3 themes with imagination and memories retaining the gre...

Material Worth in 'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant

that the fact that Maupassant was completely able to represent his characters in such a fashion as to give the reader a sense of c...

Bessie Head's 'The Collector of Treasures' and Marriage

In 5 pages the 2 couples featured in this short story by Bessie Head are contrasted and compared regarding the marriages of each. ...

Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff

trouble getting through the fences. Frank and Kenny could have helped him; they could have lifted up on the top wire and stepped o...

Alice Walker’s Everyday Use

she has moved to the city and been educated. One sees perhaps the only conflict this mother has in her life because it is a confl...

Alice Walker: “The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart”

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

Alice Walker/Everyday Use

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

Hendel: "Apples in Honey"

country seems to be in a perpetual state of war with its neighbors, and on the fact that this eternal war has become the norm. Th...

Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

has ultimately nothing to do with emotions. Although Mel is obviously a learned man, and a doctor and perhaps arrogant to some ext...

Two Stories by Thom Jones

no choices" (Jones). This is obviously untrue-there are always choices. But Herbie has convinced himself that this is his only op...

Alice Walker’s Coming Apart

pleasure he has enjoyed is a violation of his rights" (Walker). As a man he is ignorantly assuming that he has the right to have s...

Tolstoy: "After the Ball"

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

Glaspell: "A Jury of Her Peers"

and indeed she is the most likeable person in the story, because she is the one who solves the mystery and suggests its resolution...

Mark Twain’s A Dog’s Tale

she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...

The Lottery by Jackson: Violence or Tradition?

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

Religion in “A Good Many is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor

with that in mind it becomes obvious that religion is such an important part of this story that one cannot ignore it. In first l...

Organization of Plot in A Rose for Emily by Faulkner

time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...

Flannery O'Connor's Unique Style

is actually an "angel of light," as he serves as the "unwilling instrument of grace," by stealing Joy/Hulgas leg and leaving her s...

Graham Greene: "The Destructors"

to do with self-preservation. We know that the house stands next to their playground, and that it is the only structure left stan...

Symbolism in Yasunari Kawabata’s The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

Barn Burning by Faulkner

testify, to lie for his father he can "smell and sense just a little of fear because mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce p...

Flannery O'Connor/Good Country People

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

Character Analysis: Lyman in "The Red Convertible"

car deliberately so that Henry would work on it, and thus be restored to his old self. This doesnt seem to match up with the idea ...

'Never Marry a Mexican' by Sandra Cisneros

her mothers influence, she will debase herself and all the people she is involved with, and even those wives who she does not know...

Themes and Criticism of 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

Iin four pages this combination research paper and essay discusses the critical thematic interpretation of this famous short story...

Gender Stereotypes in Achebe's "Dead Men's Path"

gotten his teaching certificate and then gone on to work for several years in education-at least enough to get noticed and promote...

Kate Chopin: “The Storm” and “Desiree’s Baby”

but will not be arriving soon. The wife, existing in a space with her children, is happy for this news for she and her children ar...