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Comparison of Ethel Wilson's 'The Window' and Joyce Marshall's 'The Enemy'

In five pages the similarities and differences that exist in these two short stories are contrasted and compared. Two sources are...

"The Hills Like White Elephants" - An Interpretation

contrast in each of these dualistic aspects of the setting reflects the dichotomous void that exists between the two central chara...

'A View of the Woods' by Flannery O'Connor

fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...

Comparing 'Two Kinds' with 'Bartleby'

ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

'The Cask of Amontillado' and 'The Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...

Short Story of Suspense Novel Construct

other words it compels the reader to say, "What?!" or "Whoah. What happens next?" or "Wow, how did this happen?" Any combination ...

Herman Melville’s Piazza Tales

(Melville The Piazza). In this one sees that the narrator values her life perhaps, but not his own, while she values much. This na...

Edgar Allan Poe’s Creative Uses of Atmosphere and/or Tension in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Black Cat”

in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'Cask of Amontillado' and Narcissism

the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...

James McPherson's 'An Act of Prostitution'

discipline, and demonstrates the ambiguities and inadequacies within the structure of the system. The idea that the law is depende...

Analyzing 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin

the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...

Joyce Carol Oates' Short Story 'Shopping'

than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...

The Character of Alida Slade in 'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton

Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...

'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog' by Mark Twain and the Use of Vernacular

are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...

'Father and Son' and 'Mother and Child' by Langston Hughes

of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...

Depiction of Women in 2 Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...

Charles Wright's Short Story 'A New Day'

such a position where this is his best hope. His entire family seems thrilled that he can have such a good job with good pay, neve...

Life and Short Stories of Ring Lardner

who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...

Fantasy in James Thurber's 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

Religious Images in 'My Kinsman, Major Molineux' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines how an individual's social conflict is demonstrated through the use of religious imagery in this...

Appearance versus Reality in the Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines how the conflict between appearances and reality is depicted in the short stories 'The Minister'...

Spirituality in 'The Birthmark' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages the spiritual laboratory assistant Animadab is compared with the nonspiritual Aylmer as depicted in this short story...

Symbolism in 'The Birthmark' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines the significance of symbolism in this famous short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There are no o...

Symbolism in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines the importance of symbols to the telling of the short story 'Young Goodman Brown.' There are 7 ...

Puritanism, Witchcraft, and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this essay examines how Puritanism and witchcraft contribute to the setting of this short story by Nathaniel Hawthor...

Dream vs. Reality in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this essay considers whether the events that transpired in this short story were real or were in fact a dream. Ther...

Enslavement in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the enslavement theme within these short stories from the perspectives of the revo...

Point of View in 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

lends variety to a work that otherwise might become monotonous. But in short stories, only one point of view is generally used, a...

Symbolism in 'The Bear' by William Faulkner

This paper analyzes how symbols and illusions are used in 'The Bear,' a short story by William Faulkner, in five pages. Two sourc...

Recurrent Images and Themes in 'The Bear,' 'Barn Burning,' and 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

In five pages this paper discusses the repetitive themes in this trio of short stories by William Faulkner. Seven sources are cit...