YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Old Fashioned Story Reviewed
Essays 1951 - 1980
Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...
conservative who is on a regular CNN television show debating issues with liberal commentator Evan Turner. As Ted is on the escala...
her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...
shtetl, the Jewish ghetto, had become unbearable under Tsarist rule. Chernin recognized that the women of her family had an abund...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...
tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...
a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...
is a story about change - the change in a man, people he recognizes and knew his entire life did not recognize this man who Garl...
experience, clearly illustrating how her lack of inner strength and fortitude is what stands in the way of her finding true happin...
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 ...
story is accepting and understanding of the old mans emotional needs. He points out to the younger waiter that the caf? is "clean ...
Being put into a position of having to sexually service their master was the ultimate blow to a female slaves psyche. This...
being overly emotional, but even though she believes in reason is it not a guiding principle in her life. In this way, it is evid...
stopped, at least for Neddy Merrill. It seems that for those like Neddy, money must be had at all costs, but he had a problem too,...
what man believes he can confront and ultimately overcome and what the bitter truth of reality says he can accomplish when up agai...
living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...
readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...
did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...
of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...
representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...
to that of a man and saw womens role in society as being purely to serve men. When they were "no longer willing to fill that role,...
4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...
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...
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...
the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...
OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...