YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analysis of Five American Short Stories
Essays 781 - 810
Iin a paper consisting of six pages this essay discusses the short story in terms of how it reflects the author's own life. There...
In ten pages 5 short stories from the collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes are analyzed in terms of the literary techniques emplo...
fiction has become a cardinal rule, with the demand being even more stringent in the short story due to its compressed form. Rese...
In one page this paper compares the characters Ivan Ilych from Leo Tolstoy's short story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' and Linda Brent...
The ways in which rounded characters are constructed within short stories are considered in a six page examination of Guy de Maupa...
In seven pages this short story collection is examined in terms of how Latino families are represented within. There are no other...
only one of 21 collected stories. However, it was the force of Tevyes energetic personality which made him appear dominant in the...
letters and "The letters cover everything from the emptiness Hemingway felt upon completing a novel to their shared loneliness" (P...
In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of the title character Ellen Weatherall and considers her strengths and determi...
for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...
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...
trouble getting through the fences. Frank and Kenny could have helped him; they could have lifted up on the top wire and stepped o...
Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...
Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...
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...
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...
bursts" (Vonnegut, 1961). George, her husband, was brilliant and as such represented a threat to the status quo and so he was forc...
(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...
by her husband and left to raise four small children alone. In order to do so she had to work, so she had to find people to take c...
In fifteen pages women's roles are contrasted as they relate to the Hemingway short stories 'A Canary for One,' 'Che Ti Dice La Pa...
cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...
enough to truly consider them a hero. For example, Miranda is one who is strong and determined. She wants to change the world and ...
it has been going on for so long that nobody remembers why or how it started (Jackson). We also know that this village is not the ...
is always used and told what to do with no credit to his character. No one shows him kindness and yet Alyosha is still a good natu...
is happening to her, but yet she heeds his advice and rules nonetheless because she was a good and dutiful wife. But, she knows sh...
have suddenly grown weak" which symbolizes also the weakness in the man as well through the death of his wife and the memory of hi...
attracts someone she doesnt anticipate -- an considerably older man named Arnold Friend. Vaguely sinister from the beginning, Arno...
In seven pages this paper examines how the revenge theme is developed in this short story and how whether or not it was Fortunato ...
as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...
abilities, illustrating how and why she wears the clothing she does: "I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for wa...