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her that he likes arguing for it makes the time go faster, but then he berates her for who she is and how she is attempting to mak...

he likes the fact that his wife is confused and thinking he is a homosexual. Frank takes advantage of her confusion and...

she is the sort of woman who would love to go to such an event, but could not possibly go to such without looking regal and wealth...

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

his mother. Sheppard fails to see the depth of the boys grief, and Norton hangs himself in despair. His suicide is an attempt to b...

was much different.) There are other aspects to the mum that remind us of Kin. First, a flower of any kind is beautiful, but pra...

really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...

tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...

the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...

My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...

speaking with the man directly, or setting about to use his mind to figure out a logical answer, he resorts to unethical behavior....

of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...

this day, of course, will differ from all others. What makes this a significant day in Miss Brills life is that she is about to be...

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

death(The Death/synopsis). He simply lived his life like most people do: work, family, community. There was nothing else. Or was t...

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...

a grandfather is made clear as soon as Robert ushers Mr. Winfield into the car. Wiinfields granddaughter, Sheila, greets him. With...

barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and ther...

which is clearly understandable, yet she has not used her intelligence to rise above it all and find truth. She cannot exhibit kin...

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

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

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...

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