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Essays 151 - 180
her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...
Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...
types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...
It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...
becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...
It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...
determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...
In six pages this paper examines how American culture is reflected in this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Eight sources are ...
In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...
tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...
The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...
wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...
In nine pages this paper discusses Yiddish American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer's life and writings including 'The Lecture' and '...
that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...
This paper discusses how American Romanticism is represented in 'Rip Van Winkle,' a short story by Washington Irving in three page...
he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...
Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...
This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...
a young woman who feels that beauty and frivolity are the most important things in life. She does not see that life is not as simp...
has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...
of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...
our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...
In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...
The focus of this five page paper is the storyline of two specific short stories in The Bird in the House. The writer compares an...
In five pages this paper examines the Victorian time period that shaped the life and writings of Kate Chopin and analyzes the femi...
earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...