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Ice Metaphor in 'Sonny's Blues' by James Baldwin

terrible shock and pain of learning about Sonnys arrest, and the fear that the narrator feels for his brothers future. The feeling...

'A White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett

In six pages this paper analyzes Sarah Orne Jewett's short story in terms of female identity and youthful sexuality. Four sources...

Women’s Rights and Hills Like White Elephants

women: "During the early 20th century the term new woman came to be used in the popular press. More young women than ever were goi...

Tessie Hutchinson/The Lottery/Shirley Jackson

understanding of the lottery is the same as her neighbors. She complacently believes that it will never touch her family. This goe...

Raymond Carver and His Stories

in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...

A Rose for Emily/Use of Narration

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

The Necklace

and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...

Cheever's "The Country Husband"

every night to a battlefield" (Cheever 73). Later in the story, at a party, Weed recognizes the maid serving canap?s, as a woman...

Stephen Crane's "Open Boat" and setting

with human emotions, as the sea is described as being "nervously anxious." This conveys to the reader the way in which the men per...

'The World War I Los Angeles Airplane' by Richard Brautigan

at the same time he is not successful, such as the relationship with his grandfather and a wife. In terms of three specific events...

Marxist View of the Misfit Character in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

to save her family. Perhaps she can convince him not to kill anyone, but instead, she only pleads for her own life without much re...

Responsibility and Guilt in 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

The obvious conclusion that many students come to when considering this encounter was that Connie in effect encouraged Arnolds pur...

Analysis of Symbolism in Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'Masque of the Red Death,' and 'The Tell Tale Heart'

significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...

Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

Many factual elements of Schmids horrendous crimes and his persona impregnate Oates short story. Schmid is described in the "Life...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway and the 'Failed Artist'

to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...

Major Themes of 'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

Successful Short Story Characteristics

not strain her mental state. She must not write in her journal, she must not be in a room she finds more pleasant than the one cho...

Processes of Gay Identity Development

has returned home for a visit with his mother and to reintroduce her to his lover, Wayne, who joins him at his childhood home. Nei...

Feminism and Ursula K. Le Guin's, Sur

This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...

An Analysis of Doris Lessing's, To Room Nineteen

telephone wire holding her to her duty like a leash. The next time she must telephone, or wait to be telephoned, nailed her to her...

Ignorance and Fear in 'The Minister's Black Veil' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...

The Dreamers by Isak Dinesen and Identity

the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Use of Setting

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

The Cask of Amontillado

he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...

Life of Ernest Hemingway Reflected in his Art

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

Poe and The Tell-Tale Heart, a Reaction

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

'The Black Cat' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...

'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor Compared

The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...

Gothic Fascination of Edgar Allan Poe

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

Short Story Related to Self Driving Cars

This 9 page paper gives an example of a short story which related to the technology of self driving cars. This paper includes desc...