YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Analysis of Five American Short Stories
Essays 1051 - 1080
a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
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,...
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...
of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...
that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
The obvious conclusion that many students come to when considering this encounter was that Connie in effect encouraged Arnolds pur...
This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...
the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...
significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...
Many factual elements of Schmids horrendous crimes and his persona impregnate Oates short story. Schmid is described in the "Life...
or perhaps the ability to appreciate the verse even if they do not recognize the poet. His insecurity also shows in that this judg...
in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...
(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...
it is nurtured and kept in the right place, it is golden. When it is kept in the shadows, it turns brown and falls to the ground. ...
to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...
the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...
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...
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...
hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...
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...
In seven pages this short story by Washington Irving is critically analyzed. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....
In four pages this paper analyzes the inner struggles of Lengel by adopting his perspective in an examination of John Updike's sho...
In a paper consisting of four pages character conflicts as they exist in this short story are considered and through an examinatio...
In four pages the ways in which conflict functions in these short stories are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in ...
In six pages this essay discusses the positive characterization of the blind man in the short story 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver....
In six pages the ways in which Walker employs fiction to express her concern about specific issues and love of humanity are consid...
In seven pages this short story is analyzed in terms of primary themes, plot, and characterization. There are no other sources li...
In eight pages the varied critical responses to Adams's fiction particularly as it portrayed class is discussed with reference mad...